{"id":132962,"date":"2024-10-03T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nobody-supported-me-ive-no-godfather-in-politics-speaker-abbas"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:41:07","slug":"nobody-supported-me-ive-no-godfather-in-politics-speaker-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nobody-supported-me-ive-no-godfather-in-politics-speaker-abbas","title":{"rendered":"Nobody supported me, I\u2019ve no godfather in politics \u2013 Speaker, Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas has distanced himself from godfatherism in Nigerian politics.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas said nobody sponsored or supported his emergence in politics.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed this during an interactive session with select public secondary school students, where he narrated how he struggled to fend for himself while growing up.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker urged young Nigerians to believe in themselves and cautioned against becoming unduly dependent on their parents for survival.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Speaker: \u201cBy the time I reached the age of 19, I was already a homeowner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA homeowner at 19, I built my own house based on my sweat. I never needed one single contribution from any member of my family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time I finished secondary school, something very very dramatic happened. I went to my father and told him that I had come to say bye-bye to him and that I was going to the National Youth Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was lying down, he stood up and looked at me and said, Abbas when did you go to the university, when did you go to the university?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, Baba, I\u2019ve been studying all these years; he never knew. Because he never sees me coming to ask him, \u2018Give me school fees,\u2019 give me money for books, give me this, give me that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the kind of environment I grew up, believing that I can do it for myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd even when I ventured into politics, I\u2019m probably one of the few you find in this country who does not have a godfather in politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody ever supported me or sponsored me, nobody; I didn\u2019t hide under anybody\u2019s umbrella to be elected or to be re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in myself and serve my people diligently. They appreciated and they kept re-electing me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve in yourself, be very hardworking, be very prayerful, be very honest, be very transparent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas has distanced himself from godfatherism in Nigerian politics. Abbas said nobody sponsored or supported his emergence in politics. He disclosed this during an interactive session with select public secondary school students, where he narrated how he struggled to fend for himself while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":132961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[10373,12040,254],"class_list":["post-132962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abbas","tag-godfather","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nobody supported me, I\u2019ve no godfather in politics \u2013 Speaker, Abbas - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. 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