Abdulrazak Namdas

Abdulrazak Saad Namdas (born January 1, 1969) is a Nigerian veteran journalist and politician. Namdas a member of Nigeria Federal House of Representatives represents Jada/Ganye/MayoBelwa/Toungo Federal Constituency of Adamawa State, north east Nigeria. He was the spokesman of House of Representatives in the 8th assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He previously served as Chief Press Secretary to Governor Boni Haruna of Adamawa State. Namdas was a deputy president of the Pan-African parliament. In 2019, he contested for the speaker of house of representatives of the 9th assembly but stepped down for Femi Gbajabiamila who was endorsed for the position by their party All Progressives Congress, APC.

Early life and education Namdas was born in Ganye Local Council Area of Adamawa State during the Nigerian civil war, his childhood experience greatly influenced his upbringing, and the seeds of humanitarianism, political activism and internationalism were sown in him.

After graduating with a BSC in Sociology from the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and then a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the Nigeria Institute of Journalism in 1998. His major campaign issues were rebranding of the image of the national assembly which was at the time under severe criticism for various reasons by Nigerians and the second issue was to give the youths a key political position.

His campaign received popular support but several factors including zoning of speakership position to the south west of Nigeria and the issue of ranking (seniority) worked against him. He dropped his ambition for the APC nominated candidate Femi Gbajabiamila from the south of the country.