‘Hard Nut To Crack’ Ghali Na’Abba Dies 3 Years After Death Hoax

Alhaji Ghali Umar Na”Abba , a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, is dead.

 Team@orientactualmags.com learned that he died in the early hours of Wednesday  at the National Hospital,  Abuja.

The former Speaker has died three years after falling victim to a death hoax, Alhaji Ghali, who died at  65, was reported to have died from COVID-19 complications in  May 2020, but this was later confirmed to be fake news.

In the political history of Nigeria,  Alhaji Ghali Naaba would  also be remembered as a man who was a ‘tough nut to crack’.

 Ahead of the leadership elections in the House of Representatives in 1999, the then newly inaugurated President Olusegun Obasanjo had chosen late Alhaji Salisu Buhari as his preferred candidate for the speakership position despite the fact that he was not a popular candidate .

The retired General was allowed to have his way while Salisu was made to voluntarily leave after leaking his secrets to the media.  He was accused of forging his certificate and lying  about his age.

Salisu  only served as Speaker for fifty days, precisely between June 3 1999  and July 23, 1999.

Apparently miffed, Obasanjo  must have resolved  to do whatever was required  to ensure that  Naaba gets removed and from the onset , foundation was not laid for a good relationship between the presidency and the House of Representatives.

Despite several attempts to have him impeached, Naaba however remained the Speaker until the end of the legislative session on June 3, 2003.  Efforts to divide the ranks of the legislators and make them impeach Naaba did not produce desired results.

That was not all, under Naaba’s leadership, the House of Representatives, initiated impeachment proceedings against Obasanjo  in August 2002.

The House of Representatives  had earlier on August 13,  given  Obasanjo an ultimatum to either resign or face impeachment proceedings which he had described  as ‘a joke gone too far’.

However, following the expiration of the ultimatum, impeachment proceedings was initiated against Obasanjo  and the lawmakers cited his  failure to implement the Appropriation Acts of 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and spending money that was not approved by the National Assembly, in October of that same year , the House of Representatives increased the impeachable offences to 32.

Before getting a breather from that, the Senate  added its own , and it became 37 impeachable offences  and that was when the  former president took the matter seriously.

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and other prominent Nigerians later intervened and resolved the matter.

Late Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’aba began his early education at Jakara Primary School, Kano where he obtained his First School Leaving Certificate in 1969.

He later attended Rumfa College, Kano for his West African School Certificate and  he was also at  the School of Preliminary Studies, Kano, between 1974 and 1976, before gaining admission to  the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in October, 1976.

He also  completed a postgraduate programme   that focused  on Leadership and Good Governance at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in the United States in 2004-Team@orientactualmags.com
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