Deputy spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Hon. Philip Agbese, has said the House of Representatives is committed to transparency.
He besides added that Speaker Tajudeen Abbas has go 1 of Africa’s astir respected presiding officers.
Barring immoderate past infinitesimal changes, the House would resume plenary connected Tuesday adjacent week aft its yearly recess which commenced connected July 24, 2025.
Speaking with journalists connected Thursday, Agbese said Abbas’ transformative enactment has steered the 10th House towards unprecedented productivity and planetary influence.
He said nether Abbas’s guidance, the Nigerian parliament has evolved into a dynamic instauration wherever legislative innovation meets the needs of the people, earning admiration crossed the continent.
Agbese described Abbas arsenic a visionary person whose intelligence extent and inclusive attack person elevated Nigeria’s legislative standing.
“Rt. Hon. Abbas, Ph.D., GCON has turned the House into a powerhouse of progress,” Agbese said up of the resumption of plenary connected Tuesday.
“His committedness to transparency, measure sponsorship, and stakeholder engagement has made our parliament not conscionable functional, but exemplary. The Speaker embodies the benignant of enactment Africa desperately needs.”
The lawman spokesperson highlighted however Abbas’ stewardship has amplified Nigerian voices connected the planetary stage, positioning the state arsenic a cardinal subordinate successful planetary lawmaking.
“Our voices present number successful the planetary lawmaking arena, acknowledgment to his strategical diplomacy. Unlike erstwhile assemblies, wherever Nigeria’s information was often peripheral, the 10th House nether Abbas has actively shaped agendas successful large parliamentary forums, fostering collaborations that code shared African challenges similar indebtedness sustainability, sex equity, and antiauthoritarian governance,” helium said.
The Benue lawmaker noted that the 10th House has attended cardinal sessions and made meaningful contributions astatine planetary bodies specified arsenic the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Commonwealth Parliamentary Union (CPU), Pan-African Parliament (PAP), and ECOWAS Parliament.
According to Agbese, the 11th Annual Conference and General Assembly of the West Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC) hosted astatine the National Assembly Complex successful Abuja is different impervious of Abbas’ leadership.
“When we resume plenary connected Tuesday, you’ll spot the vigor helium brings—it’s infectious, and it makes our enactment consciousness meaningful, similar we’re genuinely serving the radical who sent america here.
“Resuming plenary nether him means much wins for Nigerians—more jobs, much equity, much hope,” helium added.

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