{"id":18953,"date":"2018-10-08T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=18953"},"modified":"2018-10-08T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:42:08","slug":"tambuwal-hon-aminu-waziri","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/tambuwal-hon-aminu-waziri\/","title":{"rendered":"Tambuwal, Hon. Aminu Waziri"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LL.B., B.L; Legal Practitioner; Politician. Administrator, Speaker of the Nigerian National Assembly; Date of Birth: January 10, 1966; Birth Place: Tambuwul; State of Origin: Sokoto; married; Number of Children: Four (two sons, two daughters); Education: Tambuwal Town Primary School, 1972-79, Government Teacher’s College, Dogon-Daji 1979-84; Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, 1991; Nigerian Law School, Lagos, 1992; Career: Legal Practitioner, 1993- 99; Public Relations Officer, Nigerian Bar Association, Sokoto, 1996-97; Branch Secretary, Nigerian Bar Association, Sokoto, 1997-98; Assistant National Financial Secretary, 1998-2000; 1st Assistant National Secretary, 2000-02; Personal Assistant to Senator Abdullahi Wali, 1999-03; Elected Member, House of Representatives, 2003; 2007; Speaker, House of Representative, since 2011; Member: Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Communication; Judiciary; Inter- Parliamentary; Water Resources; Minority Leader, House of Representatives, 2005-07; Deputy Chief Whip, House of Representatives; Leader, Nigerian Delegation to African Caribbean and Pacific European Union (ACPEU) Parliamentary Assembly; Vice Chairman, Economic Committee of ACP; Nigerian Bar Association; American Bar Association; Political Party: All Nigerian Peoples Party, later decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party; Present Address: Office of the Speaker, House of Assembly, National Assembly Complex, Abuja. On August 1, 2018, Tambuwal defected from the All progressive’s Congress (APC) back to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Tambuwal picked the presidential nomination form of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on August 30, 2018, hereby declaring his intention to run for the Office of the President in the 2019 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24705,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18953","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24699,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18953\/revisions\/24699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18953"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}