Speaker Abbas: Reflections on three years of impactful leadership

By Musa Abdullahi Krishi
Since assuming the leadership of the 10th House of Representatives on June 13, 2023, Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Ph.D., GCON, has demonstrated phenomenal leadership. This is no surprise to anyone who knows him intimately and interacts with him regularly. Calm, highly collected, measured, and humble, Speaker Abbas can be described as being sedate in his approach to leadership and life in general.
No sooner had he taken office than he set the machinery for effective leadership in motion. In our clime, for any Assembly to have a smooth sail, its leadership must tread carefully in constituting the standing committees of Parliament, else the entire four years will be...