Hon Tajudeen Abbas was on Tuesday elected as Speaker. He polled 353 votes to defeat immediate past Deputy Speaker Idris Wase and Hon Sani Jaji who polled three votes each.
Here are 10 things to know about the newly elected Speaker:
- Tajudeen Abbas is a Prince from the Zazzau Emirates and holds the traditional title of Iyan Zazzau.
- He was first elected to the House on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)
- He sponsored 74 bills in the 9th House of Representatives. He also sponsored the highest number of bills in the 8th Assembly
- He was Treasurer of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Union (CPU) in Africa.
- He will be the first to emerge as Speaker of the House with a Doctorate Degree.
- Abbas is in line and can become the Emir of Zazzau popularly known as Zaria by many
- He is returning to the House of Representatives after being elected for the first time in 2011 to represent Zaria Federal Constituency.
- He was chairman of the House Committee on Land Transport overseeing then reforms in the transport sector.
- He was a lecturer at the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic (Kaduna State Polytechnic) and later at Kaduna State University
- 21 of the bills sponsored by Abbas in the 9th Assembly were signed into law
