Alhassan Ado Garba Biography, Family, Education, Career and Net Worth

In this piece, platinumpost.ng chronicles the biography, family, education, career and net worth of Alhassan Ado Garba.

 

Alhassan Ado Garba popularly known as Alhassan Doguwa is the Majority Leader of House of Representatives of Nigeria.

 

He is an All Progressive Congress (APC) member representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency of Kano State in the 9th National Assembly. Garba is the House Leader.

 

 

The 9th National Assembly is a bicameral legislature inaugurated on 11 June 2019; the assembly will run its course until 11 June 2023.

 

 

FAMILY

Hon. Garba popularly known as Alhassan Doguwa was born on August 14th, 1965 Dadin Kowa Village, Doguwa Local Government Area, Kano State, Nigeria.His father, Alhaji Ado, was a prominent politician.

Hon Garba is a Muslim. He is a firm believer in large family, he has four wives and 28 children.

 

EDUCATION

Hon Garba attended Dadin-Kowa Primary School where he obtained the First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC).

He had his secondary education at Government Secondary School, Gaya, where he obtained the West African Senior Certificate (WASC).

He proceeded to the Bayero University Kano where he studied Mass Communication and graduated with a first class degree in 1990.

 

CAREER

Hon Garba began his political career in 1992 when he was elected into the Federal House of Representatives under the Social Democratic Party.

In 2000 he served as Special Adviser to the Kano State Governor on environment.

 

He returned to the Federal House in 2007 to represent Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency.

He was re-elected in 2011 and 2015. He is a member of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Until 2015, he was Chairman at Millennium Development Goals Committee.

He was also a member of the Drugs & Narcotics, Public Petitions, and Niger Delta Development Commission Committees.

 

 

Hon. Garba was also Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

 

 

He is currently the majority leader of the House of Representatives of Nigeria in the 9th Nigeria National Assembly (NASS).

 

 

Hon Garba is contesting for the position of 10th Speaker of the House.

 

 

Alhassan Ado Garba has a Traditional Title of Sarkin Yakin Burum Burum and Yariman Dadin Kowa conferred to him by both the District Heads of Doguwa and Tudun Wada Local Governments respectively in 2013.

 

 

He was also conferred with the prestigious national honour of the Officer of the Order of Niger (OON) in October 2022, by His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCON, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

CONTROVERSY

‘Vote for APC or you are dealt with’

In December 2022, Alhassan Doguwa was heard urging party supporters to deal with anyone who would not be voting for the APC in a widely circulated video.

 

“To God who made me, you must vote for APC on election day, or we deal with you.

 

“I’ll repeat it again: either you support the APC on election day, or we deal with you.

 

He said, “Repeat after me, in Doguwa you either vote for APC or we deal with you,” as the audience erupted in cheers.

 

Doguwa claimed in an interview with Channels TV that his goal was to inspire rather than frighten supporters.

N70 million need for election

In a widely shared video, Doguwa complained that he would require N70 million in cash for the elections on February 25, 2023.

“And don’t forget the point I made as a partisan member that the policy is against the ruling party in itself because Nigerians that are not happy will look at it as a policy of the government of the APC,” he continued in an interview.

 

You announce a policy 30–40 days before elections that is not well received by Nigerians, and whether we like it or not, that policy will be perceived as the government’s platform. Therefore, those of us in the APC are not pleased.

Alleged assault of a journalist

Abdullahi Yakubu, a reporter for the Leadership Newspaper, filed a lawsuit against Hon Doguwa for allegedly beating him when he attended a news conference at the lawmaker’s home.

 

Having known Yakubu for more than 30 years, Doguwa apologized to the journalist, saying, “I am very sorry over the issue.”

Speaking up, he declared, “It was never on purpose; even Abdullahi Yakubu is aware of the kind of person I am.

 

Sincerely, Yakubu is the only journalist who has genuinely supported my efforts to this point.
“Even in certain cases when we co-write the story, I correct him in some of the writeups, and we would both be pleased with the outcome.

 

“Also, occasionally when I would come up with write-ups, he would professionally rebuke me by saying, ‘This is wrong in journalism.’

I have known Abdullahi for more than 30 years, as I mentioned previously, therefore with this, I have officially apologized to him because the word “assault” in the lawsuit against me made me uneasy.

 

I am a journalist, and I am conscious of human rights.

“This is due to the fact that, like troops and police, journalists work in the field. I’m quite respectful of them,” he remarked.

Killing of several persons and burning the secretariat of NNPP.

 

For his suspected involvement in the murder of numerous people and the burning of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) secretariat on February 25, 2023, Alhassan Ado Doguwa was detained by the police.

 

The NNPP campaign secretariat in Tudunwada was set on fire, and the police have confirmed that at least three people died as a result.

 

During the crisis that erupted during the compilation of the results of the Doguwa/Tudunwada House of Representatives election, which Doguwa was ultimately adjudged to have won, two people perished from fire injuries.

A magistrate court in Kano remanded Doguwa in custody a few days later.

 

On Wednesday, Doguwa was accused of engaging in criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, illegally possessing a firearm, damage, and causing a commotion in public.

 

 

The federal politician was held by Magistrate Ibrahim Mansur Yola until March 7, 2023, so that the bail application could be heard.

 

Aisha Salisu, the prosecutor, informed the court that the offense was committed on February 26 in the Tudun Wada local government area of Kano by Doguwa and a man named Bashir Dahiru.

 

Salisu claimed that the lawmaker shot and killed Ibrahim Dauda with a gun while also injuring two others on their hands and legs.

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) office in Tudun Wada Dankadai was set on fire as a result of a conspiracy between the defendants and five other people who are still at large, the prosecutor told the court.

 

Six people suffered various injuries at the aforementioned NNPP office, while two people lost their life there.

 

NET WORTH

His net worth is not available.