Gbajabiamila Moves To Remove ‘Hon’ From Reps Designation

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila responding to questions during a panel discussion on the 'State of the Nation' at the ongoing 2020 Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) virtual conference on Wednesday 27 August, 2020. Photo: Speaker's Media Unit.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has sponsored a bill to change the appellation of members of the House of Representatives, from Honourable to Representative.

The legislation is titled ‘A Bill for an Act to Amend the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act, 2017, seems to enjoy the backing of members of the 9th House, including the Speaker, as they have been using ‘Rep.’ before their names, instead of the ‘Honourable’ or ‘Hon’ that has been in use for ages.

Gbajabiamila is now seeking to legalise the change in the “address and designation of a member” through the amendment bill.

The bill seeks to insert new Sections 21 and 22 into the Legislative Houses (Powers And Privileges) Act, which read, “(21) A member of the Senate shall be designated and addressed as a Senator and shall be entitled to have before his name the word ‘Senator’ during his term in office and for life.

“(22) A member of the House of Representative shall be designated and addressed as a ‘Representative’ and shall be entitled to have before his name the word ‘Representative’ during his term in office and for life.”

The Speaker wrote in the explanatory note, “This bill seeks to define the designation and address before the name of a member of the National Assembly.”

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