Known to be very outspoken and controversial, yet influential. Reputed to have 27 children, served as Special Adviser to not less than two past Presidents of the Senate and has been in the Green Chamber for five terms
We are back on Parliament Spotlight this week, focusing on the 57-year-old Alhassan Ado Doguwa, Majority Leader and number 3 lawmaker in the Ninth House of Representatives.
Known to be very outspoken and controversial, yet influential in and out of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). He is also reputed to have 27 children from four wives, served as Special Adviser to not less than two past Presidents of the Senate and has been in the Green Chamber for five terms.
LEGISLATIVE PROFILE
ELECTIVE POSITIONS
- Lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency (1992)
Social Democratic Party (SDP)
- Lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency (2007 – 2011)
6th House of Representatives - Lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency (2011 – 2015)
7th House of Representatives - Lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency (2015-2019)
8th House of Representatives - Lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency (2019 till date)
9th House of Representatives
APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
- Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)
6th House of Representatives - Chairman, House Committee on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
7th House of Representatives - Chairman, African Network of Parliamentarians on MDGs
- Chief Whip
8th House of Representatives - Vice Chairman, House Committee on Constitutional Review
9th House of Representatives
- Majority Leader
9th House of Representatives
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS (LEGISLATURE)
He has ten bills to his credit in the 9th Assembly
- Indian Hemp Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020
(Awaiting Second Reading)
- Appropriations Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020
(Passed by the House)
- Federal Capital Territory Rent Tribunal (Establishment) Bill, 2021
(Awaiting Second Reading)
- Federal College of Education Tudun Wada Dankadai (Establishment) Bill, 2020
(Laid on Table)
- ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms, Light Weapons and Ammunition (Ratification and Enforcement) Bill, 2021
(Laid on Table)
- Currency Offences Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021
(Awaiting Second Reading)
- Educational Correspondence Colleges Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021
(Awaiting Second Reading)
- Federal Medical Centre, Dadin-Kowa, Kano State (Establishment) Bill, 2022
(Awaiting Report)
Appropriation Act, 2021 (Amendment) Bill, 2020
(Awaiting Second Reading) - Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2022
(Passed by the House)
MAJOR CONTROVERSIES (LEGISLATURE)
- Very outspoken, he is largely known for his controversial views on the floor of the House.
- He is reputed to have boasted on the floor of the House about having 27 children (and still counting) from his four wives (one late), who he came with to the Green Chamber.
- The APC Kano Deputy Governorship Candidate, Murtala Sule Garo, recently accused the lawmaker of hitting him with a teacup.
- He was also alleged to have recently assaulted Kano Leadership Newspaper correspondent Abdullahi Yakubu, to who he apologised.READ ALSO: Reps Majority Leader apologises to journalist over alleged assault
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
- Special Adviser to the Kano State Governor on Environment (2000)
POLITICAL PROFILE
- Special Adviser on Governmental Affairs (2003 – 2005)
Office of the Senate President
- Special Adviser on Political Party Affairs (2005 – 2007)
Office of the Senate President
