Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives has welcomed a baby girl bringing his number of children to 28, at the age of 56.
The news was made known publicly during the plenary on Tuesday the 25th of January when the Speaker of the house, Femi Gbajabiamila had asked Ado-Doguwa if he had any personal announcements to make to which Ado-Doguwa said there was none. However, Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu immediately congratulated Ado-Doguwa on his new baby.
“Mr. Speaker, mine is to congratulate my brother, the Leader of the House. He currently has 28 children and still counting,” Elumelu said.
Alhassan Ado-Doguwa would then go on to confirm the news after being called upon to defend himself by the speaker. “This is no longer news. It is no longer news because this thing happened in the last 24 hours. It is true that my beloved family has gotten an additional one person. It is a baby girl. Bouncing. The mother and the baby are hale and hearty.”
The new addition increases the lawmaker’s number of children from 27 to 28, something he is very proud of with a target of getting the number to 30 before the 2023 elections.
“The husband is still active. I am here. And I thank God that I kept my word with the House that while I had 27, I promised you that I would continue counting. I want by the grace of God and your prayers that the count would continue,” the leader said.
Laughter erupted in the house when Ado-Doguwa added that since the house was in the process of the Electoral Act Amendment, a clause should be added to permit families with 30 children to have a polling unit in their house as he was planning to raise the number to 30.
“Now that we are considering the Electoral Act amendment, I would also add when we get to the floor perhaps in the Committee of the Whole, I would appeal to my members so that we suspend relevant rules and we have a clause in the Electoral Act where it permits families that do have up to 30 kids in their homes to have an electoral polling unit in that family,” the lawmaker said.
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After the speaker asked if he was planning to get a polling unit in his house, the Majority Leader responded, “Yes, between now and 2023, before the election comes, if you allow that, then I will have a polling unit within my home.”
Doguwa who represents Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency of Kano State is married to four wives. Back in 2019 during his inauguration ceremony as House Majority Leader, Ado-Doguwa paraded his wives on the floor of the house. Signaling them to rise, he said; “Mr. Speaker, I would like to let you know that with me today here, are my four respected wives… Mr. Speaker, these four wives you have seen have produced 27 kids for me, and I am still counting. I am still counting.” He also revealed that his late father who passed on at 86 had 40 children including a 4-year-old at the time of his death.
Alhassan Ado-Doguwa is a First-Class graduate of Mass Communications from Bayero University Kano. He was first elected into the House in 1992, shortly after his graduation. He was later re-elected in 2007 and has since been a member of the house, making him the longest-serving member of the house of reps.
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