Former Speaker, House of Representatives Is Dead

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ghali Umar Na’Abba, is dead.

Na’Abba, the second Speaker of the House of Representatives in the current 4th Republic, died in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Details surrounding the circumstances of his death has not been confirmed as at press time.

He was elected Member of the House of Representatives in 1999 from Kano State. He became the Speaker a few months after the inauguration of the House following the resignation of the then Speaker, Salisu Buhari, from the same Kano State, over certificate forgery scandal.

The former Speaker who’s called Lion of the HoR passed alot of Bill’s that strengthen Nigeria Democracy during the period.

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