After several weeks of rumors, President Bola Tinubu formally named Femi Gbajabiamila, the departing Speaker of the House of Representatives, as his new Chief of Staff on Friday.
This article previously stated that Abiodun Oladunjoye, the State House Director of Information, incorporated the most recent information in a statement.
Ten things about Femi Gbajabiamila are highlighted in this Newsmen story.
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1. Femi Gbajabiamila is a lawyer from Nigeria and a member of the APC.
2. The representative was chosen to represent Surulere in the House of Representatives in 2003. one federal district
3. Since 2019, Gbajabiamila has held the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
4. He was the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives in the 7th National Assembly.
5. He was head of the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating claims by the Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) about the 140.9bn naira (about $1Bn) debt owed by ‘Zenon Petroleum & Gas Limited’ and ‘Forte Oil Plc’.
6. Gbajabiamila and other legislators were accused of receiving bribes to guarantee the legislation’s advancement, after the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in August
2021.
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7. In October 2022, former President, Muhammadu Buhari conferred on him a Nigerian national honour of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR).
8. In 2014, Femi Gbajabiamila as the Leader of the opposition in the House of Representatives, led his colleagues into the merger that gave birth to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
9. In 2011, Femi Gbajabiamila was nominated for the national award of Officer of the Federal Republic, (OFR). He rejected the nomination on the grounds that he did not believe the being used in the way it was intended to reward service to the nation.
10. Gbajabiamila is married with children.
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