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7th National Assembly

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Type
  
bicameral

7th National Assembly

Houses
  
Senate House of Representatives

President of the Senate
  
David Mark (PDP) Since 6 June 2007

Speaker of the House
  
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (APC) Since 6 June 2011

The 7th National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a bicameral legislature inaugurated on June 6, 2011 and the assembly will run its course till June 6, 2015. The assembly comprises the Senate and the House of Representatives. The House of Representative consists of 251 elected members and the Senate, a total of 109 members from which 73 were newly elected and 36 were re-elected across the 6 geopolitical zones of Nigeria. David Mark, the Senate President of the 6th National Assembly was re-elected on the platform of People's Democratic Party and Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the Speaker of the House of Representatives was also re-elected on the same platform following the April 11, general election.

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Officers of the Senate

The table below outlined the Principal Officers of the Senate.

Officers of the house of representative

  • Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal - Speaker House of Representatives
  • Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha - Deputy Speaker House of Representatives
  • Hon. Mulikat Akande Adeola - House Leader
  • Hon. Ishaka Mohammed Bawa -Majority Whip
  • Hon. Leonard Okuweh Ogor -Deputy House Leader
  • Hon. Ahmed Mukhtar Mohammed - Deputy Chief Whip
  • Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila - Minority Leader
  • Hon. Samson Raphael Osagie - Minority Whip
  • Hon. Kawu Sumaila - Deputy Minority Leader
  • Hon. Garba Datti Muhammad - Deputy Minority Whip

    • References

    7th National Assembly Wikipedia
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