The majority leader of the House of Representatives, Ado Doguwa, has excitedly broken the news of the arrival of his 28th child, a baby girl.
Doguwa made the disclosure while speaking on the floor of the House during plenary on Tuesday, after he was congratulated by the Minority Leader of the House. Hon Ndudi Elumelu, on the birth of his child.
“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 bouncing baby girl, Doduwa responded.
“The mother and the baby are hale and hearty. 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. By the grace of God and your prayers, the count would continue.
“Now that we are considering the electoral act amendment and 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 come to have an electoral polling unit in that family.”
“At least between now and 2023 before the elections come, if you allow that, then I would have a polling unit within my home,” Doguwa replied in answer to a question by the Speaker on whether he plans to have a polling unit in his house.
The lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency in Kano State caused a stir in the National Assembly in 2020 when he stormed the House with his four wives.