A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na”Abba is dead.
He died in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja.
He was aged 65.
He was elected Member of the House of Representatives in 1999 from Kano State. He became the Speaker a few months after the inauguration of the House following the resignation of the then Speaker, Salisu Buhari, from the same Kano State, over certificate forgery scandal.