Ex-Speaker Ghali Umar Na’Abba, is dead

By Murtala Adewale, Kano

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, is dead. He was aged 65.

A younger sister to the former speaker, Hussain Na’Abba who confirmed the death said the late politician passed on at about 3am Wednesday at the National Hospital, Abuja.

The family member said the 8th speaker of Nigeria’s green chamber who be buried in Kano later in the day.

The rumoured death of the Kano born politician went viral on social media in May 2020 during the era of the deadly COVID 19. But Na’Abba who was away in London refuted the rumour.

Ghali, was the speaker of the house of representatives during the tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo and member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)