Hon. Tajudeen Abbas on Tuesday emerged as the Speaker of House of Representatives of the 10th National Assembly (NASS).
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Abbas emerged as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, following inauguration of the 10th Assembly.
Abbas emerged Speaker unopposed after two speakership aspirants, Aliyu Betara and Yusuf Gagdi stepped down from the race.
Abbas was the preferred candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Speakership position
Who is Abbas?
Abbas is the member representing Zaria Federal Constituency of Kaduna State. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2011 on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
Abbas comes from the Zazzau Emirate. He is a prince from the emirate and holds the tradional title of the Iyan Zazzau.
Based on the tradition, he is in line of succession to become the Emir of Zazzau. He had a distinguished career in both public and private sectors before coming to the House.
The Zazzau prince had been a primary school teacher and later became a polytechnic and university lecturer. He was the pioneer head, Department of Accounting and Finance, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria between 1989 and 1993.
He also pioneered the Department of Business Administration at the same institution in 2001 before joining the Kaduna State University (KASU), where he established the Department of Accounting as the pioneer HoD in 2005.
The new speaker had worked at the Nigerian Tobacco Distribution Company, now British-American Tobacco Company between 1993 and 1996.
He quit the academia and joined politics in 2010, where he contested for the House of Reps seat for Zaria Federal Constituency and won.
In the 8th Assembly – between 2015 and 2019 – he held the record of a single member that sponsored the highest number of bills in the entire National Assembly.
When he returned to the 9th House – from 2019 to date – Tajudeen Abbas singlehandedly sponsored record breaking 74 bills, out of which 21 were signed into law.