By our Reporter
Tajudeen Abbas has been elected the new Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives.
He polled 353 votes to emerge the winner of the speakership election.
The other contestants, former Deputy Speaker Idris Wase and Sani Jaji, polled three votes each.
Mr Abbas is the anointed candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He represents Zaria Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, North-west Nigeria.
The new Speaker, a former lecturer, was first elected to the House in 2011. He succeeds Femi Gbajabiamila.
Throughout the voting, members were called upon one after the other, and votes were cast, with various members calling the name of who they were voting for among the aforementioned three members on the ballot.
As voting proceeded, Tajudeen Abbas was the most pronounced name among the 359 members participating in the session. Upon introduction, members who voted eulogised Mr Abbas with his traditional title “Iyan Zazzau”, and accolades.
During the process, two members observed that their names were skipped and could not participate in the voting process.