Ghali Na’Abba, Reps Speaker Who Shook Obasanjo With Impeachment Dies At 65

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Ghali Umar Na’Abba has died at 65.

News of the death was broken by Leadership newspaper which reported that Na’Abba died in the wee hours of Wednesday from a protracted illness.

GWG.ng reports that Na’Abba was the second speaker of the House of Representatives in the Fourth Republic and is most remembered for mobilizing the lawmakers of his time to defend the independence of the legislature and famously marching in with members of the House into the Senate chamber to show solidarity with Senate President Chuba Okadigbo at the peak of the impeachment plot against the presiding officer of the Senate in 2000.

Na’Abba became the Speaker of the House of Representatives after the first speaker of the House, Salisu Buhari was forced to resign following revelations he lied about his education.

GWG.ng reports that Na’Abba along with some of his colleagues in the House stoutly defended the independence of the legislature and in objection to what some then saw as an imperial presidency in August 2002 articulated articles of impeachment against President Obasanjo.

Before then, he made peace with the PDP hierarchy and the presidency and received a piece of cake from the president in January, 2001 as a sign of reconciliation.

Na’Abba eventually won the re-election ticket of the PDP but eventually lost in the main election to the candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP with insinuations that the PDP helped to bring him down.

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