Members of the 10th Assembly elected its principal officers on Tuesday with the endorsed candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress coming out victorious.
At the senate, former Akwa Ibom governor, Godswill Akpabio, and Sen. Barau Jibrin emerged as senate president and deputy respectively.
In the Green Chamber, Hon. Tajudeen Abass achieved a landslide victory to clinch the speakership seat while being deputised by Hon. Ben Kalu from Imo state.
Below are few things about the new speaker of the 10th Assembly:
1. Abbas was born on October 1, 1963, in Kaduna State and hails from the Zaria Local Government and is a member of the Zazzau Emirate Council with the traditional title, the Iyan Zazzau.
2. He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, in 1988 and 1993 respectively.
3. He furthered his education by completing a doctoral degree in business management at the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto in 2010. He lectured at the Kaduna State University (KASU).
4. From 2001 to 2005, Abbas worked as a Marketing Manager at the Nigerian Tobacco Distribution Company, now the British-American Tobacco Company. Abbas left the private sector to join politics in 2010. He contested for the House of Representatives seat in 2011 and won.
5. He sponsored the highest number of bills in the 8th Assembly between 2015 and 2019 and also sponsored record-breaking 74 bills out of which 21 were signed into law between 2019 and 2023.
6. He had served in about five committees in the House since 2015 including Commerce, Finance, Special Duties, Defence, Public Procurement, and National Planning and Economic Development Committee.
7. Until his emergence as the Speaker, Abbas was the House Committee Chairman for Land Transport.
