Ghali Na’abba

Ghali Umar Na” Abba, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, has reportedly passed on.

Ghali, the 7th speaker of the House of Representatives, died in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja.

A family source who spoke with DAILY NIGERIAN said the former lawmaker died in an Abuja hospital following a brief illness.

During his tenure as Speaker of the House, Ghali led several international bodies on parliament in the wake of the millennium.

He joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1998 during its formative period.

He emerged as the party’s candidate in the April 1999 National Assembly election in Kano Municipal Federal Constituency of Kano state and won the election to represent the Federal constituency in the House of Representatives.