Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, Member representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency of Kano State (North-West) Thursday emerged Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.
Ado-Doguwa who was the Chief Whip of the House in the 8th Assembly was adopted Monday for the position after a meeting between the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC and House of Representatives Members from Kano State.
Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House who announced the emergence of Ado-Doguwa while reading a correspondence from the APC Caucus in the House named Mohammed Monguno from Borno (North-East) as the Chiejf Whip.
According to the correspondence, Nkeireuka Onyejeocha from Abia State (South -East) is the Deputy Chief Whip while Peter Akpatason from Edo State (South-South) is the Deputy Majority Leader.
Speaking on behalf of the Principal Officers, the Majority Leader, Doguwa assured that the House leadership will extend a hand of fellowship to all lawmakers and work as an entity to advance the cause of good governance and attract dividends of democracy to the people.
Doguwa who noted that crisis, injustice and lack of transparency is anti democratic further urged the legislature to close ranks and engage the executive arm of government to ensure sustainability of democracy and still maintaining independence of the legislature.
“We would be engaged very robustly without necessarily undermining the independence of a legislature which of course is paramount. We will be very friendly of course and we will sustain that institutional understanding between legislature and the executive arm of government”, he said.
