A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, is dead. Na’Abba was born on September 27, 1958, and died in Abuja on Wednesday mo
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, is dead.
Na’Abba was born on September 27, 1958, and died in Abuja on Wednesday morning of December 27, 2023.
He was the 8th Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Family sources revealed that the deceased battled with ailment for a long time before passing away.
Na’Abba was once flown abroad for medical treatment and stayed there for some months before he recovered and returned to Nigeria.
According to the sources, the remains of the former Speaker would be buried in Abuja on Wednesday, December 27, according to Islamic rites.
Na’Abba joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and became the party’s candidate for Kano Municipal Federal Constituency, a position he won during the April 1999 general elections.
He subsequently emerged Speaker of the House of Representatives after the political crisis that led to exit of the first Speaker of the Fourth Republic, Salisu Buhari.
Na’Abba graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria, in 1979, where he studied political science.
The House of Representatives (also called Green Chamber) is the lower chamber of Nigeria’s bicameral National Assembly. The Senate is the upper chamber.
It has 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the plurality (or first-past-the-post) system.
Members serve four-year terms and the Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the house.
