Reps’ Leader welcomes 28th child, plans polling unit in his residence

The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, has welcomed his 28^th child. He had 27 children until now but one of the wives was delivered of a girl this week.

It was an unexpected conversation on the floor of the House when Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila asked the House Leader if he had any personal explanation or announcement to make as the practice dictates.

Ado-Doguwa responded in the negative.

But the Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu, disclosed that Ado-Doguwa has increased his children tally.

Elumelu said: “Mr. Speaker, mine is to congratulate my brother, the Leader of the House. He currently has 28 children and still counting. He just received double a few days ago. That made it 28. It was 26, now 28.”

In defending himself as requested by the Speaker, Ado-Doguwa 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 had gotten an additional one person, not two like you (Elumelu) said. And 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 to my words to the House of Reps; that while I had 27, I promised you that I would continue counting. I want you to know, by the grace of God and your prayer, that the count will continue. Thank you and God bless Nigeria.”

On a lighter note, the House Leader said he is working towards having a polling unit in his house as he is planning to increase the tally of his children to 30 before the end of 2023.

According to him, “Now that we are considering the Electoral Act amendment, I will also appeal to my members to allow a clause in the Electoral Act where it permits families that do have 30 kids in their homes to have an electoral polling unit in that family.”

Ado-Doguwa came with his four wives to the chamber for his inauguration as Majority Leader of the House in 2019.

TheStar