Drama as Reps Leader gets 28th child, proposes family ‘Polling Unit’

Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa caused a burst of sprawling laughter at Tuesday plenary when he sensationally said he was targeting 30 children to have a family unit for his family.

Doguwa, 56, representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada federal constituency of Kano state is the longest-serving lawmaker in the House of Representatives.

A First-Class Graduate of Mass Communications from Bayero University Kano, Doguwa joined politics immediately after his graduation and became an elected member of the House of Representatives under the defunct Social Democratic Party, SDP in 1992.

He was reelected in 2007 and has been in the House since then.

In the course of plenary proceedings yesterday, Doguwa announced that one of his 4 wives has given birth to a bouncing baby girl.

With the arrival of the newborn, the lawmaker now has a community of 28 children, and according to him, still counting.

Responding to congratulatory remarks on the delivery of his baby by the minority leader of the House, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, Doguwa said he was still active.

He informed that the baby was born in the last 24 hours, adding that she was doing well with her mother.

He said: “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 baby girl. Bouncing. 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. I want by the grace of God and your prayers that the count would continue.”