TOP STORY: Tajudeen Abbas elected speaker, Kalu becomes deputy | TheCable
Tajudeen Abbas, the lawmaker representing Zaria constituency of Kaduna, has been elected speaker of the house of representatives.Kalu was declared unopposed after his nomination by Babajimi Benson, a lawmaker from Lagos. Waziri Ibrahim from Yobe, seconded the nomination.AdvertisementAbbas, 59, was first elected to the house of representatives in 2011 on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change .
Abbas was a primary school teacher, a polytechnic and university lecturer before his foray into politics in 2010.
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