The former chairman of the Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Marshal Okafor Anyawu, has said it would be difficult for the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to withstand the plan by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to remove him from the House.

Anyanwu, who spoke to CEOAFRICA on Monday, believes the Speaker is no longer fit to occupy the position, after dumping the party through which he won election to the National Assembly.

“The new Electoral Act clearly states the conditions that can allow one to move from one party to the other, and I don’t think that situation existed at the time the Speaker decided to move from PDP to APC,” he said.

Anyanwu added that Tambuwal’s decision to move to the opposition party did not come to him as surprise because the Speaker has been very close to opposition party leaders for a long time now.

“I am surprised that the defection of the Speaker came to some people in the PDP as surprise because his body language has been speaking differently for a long time,” he said.