Abdussamad Dasuki
| Abdussamad Dasuki | |
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| Member representing Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives of Nigeria | |
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Assumed office 9 June 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Aminu Waziri Tambuwal |
| Member representing Tambuwal East constituency in the Sokoto State House of Assembly | |
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In office 2011–2015 |
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June 30, 1978 Sokoto state |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Political party | All Progressives Congress |
| Residence | Abuja |
| Alma mater | University of Abuja |
| Occupation | Legislator |
Abdussamad Dasuki (born 30 June 1978) is a Nigerian lawmaker. In the Nigerian House of Representatives, he represents Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency of Sokoto State. He is a member of the governing party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Abdussamad was born in Sokoto on June 30, 1978 to the family of His Eminence, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, the 18th Sultan of Sokoto. He is the 13th of 27 children.
His primary education began in 1984 at Federal Staff School, Sokoto, from where he graduated in 1990. In 1991, he proceeded to the Nigerian Military School in Zaria, Kaduna State, and after completing secondary education in 1996, he went on to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), also in Kaduna, in 1997. He was at NDA for three years and in 2000, he gained admission into the University of Abuja, from where he bagged a BSc in Economics in 2004. He attended a course on Business Analysis at the Lagos Business School in 2008, and in 2013, he attended an Executive Programme on Leaders in Development at the Harvard Kennedy School.
He is an Associate of the Nigerian Institute of Management, the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, and the Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria.
In 2006, Abdussamad took up employment at Dangote Group, where he worked as a Corporate Business Manager until 2010 when he joined politics.
In 2011, he contested for – and won – a seat in the Sokoto State House of Assembly, representing Tambuwal East constituency. While at the Sokoto State House of Assembly, he headed two committees namely the Committee on Agriculture (2011-2013) and the Committee on Finance and Appropriation (2013-2015).
Here, he sponsored three bills – which were passed – and represented the State Assembly on many occasions, including at a meeting of Commonwealth Parliamentarians, and at centenary celebrations in the United Kingdom in 2011.
In 2013, he was given an award by the Sokoto state chapter of the All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria for his contributions during his tenure as the Chairman of the committee on agriculture.
Regarding the last motion, when former Speaker Tambuwal defected from the then ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the opposition APC, the PDP-led Federal Government withdrew his security detail and sought to declare his seat vacant. In response to this, Abdussamad Dasuki raised a motion of urgent importance asking that the State House of Assembly condemn these, and, along with two other members, applied for a stay of proceedings in the court case against Tambuwal, seeking to be added as defendants and stating that the constituency cannot be without representation in the House of Representatives.
Tambuwal succeeded in retaining his position, and after he had decided to contest in the gubernatorial election, Dasuki sought to replace him.
On 7 December 2014, Abdussamad emerged as the candidate for the Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency at the APC primaries which held at Tambuwal stadium in Sokoto state, and went on to win with 70,653 votes at the polls in March 2015. Following his victory, a petition was filed against him by the defeated PDP candidate. The petition was eventually struck out in September 2015 for lack of merit.
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