{"id":17219,"date":"2023-12-27T10:36:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17219"},"modified":"2023-12-27T10:36:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:36:45","slug":"ex-reps-speaker-ghali-naabba-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17219","title":{"rendered":"Ex-reps Speaker, Ghali Na\u2019Abba Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Ghali Umar Na\u2019Abba, a former speaker of the house of representatives, is dead. He was aged 65.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The 4th speaker of Nigeria\u2019s green chamber died at the National Hospital in Abuja around 3 am on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Na\u2019Abba was born on September 27, 1958 in Tudun Wada, Kano state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He was speaker of the house representatives, as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from 1999 to 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1979 and completed a postgraduate programme on Leadership and Good Governance at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in the US in 2004<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He lost his re-election bid to the house in 2003 after falling out with the presidency. As house speaker, Na\u2019Abba was a constant thorn in the flesh of Olusegun Obasanjo, who was Nigeria\u2019s president from 1999 to 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In 2014, Na\u2019Abba defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and remained a political and public commentator until his passing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghali Umar Na\u2019Abba, a former speaker of the house of representatives, is dead. He was aged 65. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[472,8257,8258],"class_list":["post-17219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dead","tag-ex-reps-speaker","tag-ghali-naabba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17221,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions\/17221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}