Abbo Nassour

El-Hadj Abbo Nassour Abdoulaye Sabre (born 1927, Kapka, d. 1982) was a Chadian politician. Abbo Nassour's father, Abdoulaye Sabre Nassour, was the last Sultan of this dynasty. Abbo Nassour completed primary education, after which he served as secretary of the Sultan of Iriba. He was re-elected in the March 31, 1957 election.

After Ahmed Kotoko had relinquished his seat after the June 1958 elections, Nassour was put forth as the UST candidate to represent Chad in the General Council. In the vote in the Territorial Assembly on October 15, 1958, he finished in second place with 23 votes against 32 for the Entente candidate Ali Kosso.

Nassour was re-elected to the Territorial Assembly in the 1959 election. This government functioned until March the same year.

On June 2, 1960, he was named Minister of Interior. As Minister of Interior of Tombalbaye 1960–1962, he was instrumental in building the repressive apparatus of the new regime.

He was re-elected to parliament in the 1962 election.

In jail In the night of March 21/22, 1963 Nassour was one of a number of politicians (mainly Muslims) jailed by the new one-party state under Tombalbaye. A special tribunal, chaired by Kodébri Nagué, was held between June 7, 1963, and July 24, 1963, for Abbo Nassour and other accused in 'the March 22 plot'. Nassour was sentenced to death, accused of having conspired with Sudanese militaries against the Chadian state.

President of the National Assembly After years in prison, Nassour was given amnesty in June 1969 as part of the reconciliation process initiated by Tombalbaye. By the December 1969 parliamentary election, Nassour had moved to the government side and was elected a Member of Parliament as a Chadian Progressive Party candidate from Biltine. Nassour was named President of the National Assembly of Chad on December 30, 1969, and remained in this function until the fall of Tombalbaye on April 13, 1975.

As president of the National Assembly, Nassour led a delegation to visit Libya in December 1970, the first Chadian state visit after Colonel Muammar Gadhafi seized power. In Tripoli he met with the exiled rebel leader, derde Oueddei Kichidemi, although the Chadian government initially denied such reports.

After his rehabilitation, Nassour became a member of the Political Bureau of PPT. Later he was included in the Executive Council of the National Movement for the Cultural and Social Revolution (MNRCS).

Death After the end of the Tombalbaye regime in 1975, Nassour was arrested. He was killed in 1982 on the orders of Hissein Habré.