Former House of Representatives Speaker 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 this 4th Republic, died in the wee hours of Wednesday.

No details surrounding the circumstances of his death 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.