Houses of assembly of Nigerian states

In Nigeria, a House of Assembly is the state-level legislature. All Houses of Assembly are unicameral, with elected members who are designated as members of the House of Assembly, assemblymen, or MHA, and who serve four-year terms.

Lagos State House of Assembly Complex, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State.

In the Federal Capital Territory, which is not a state, there is no territory-wide legislature analogous to a State House of Assembly, with its second highest level of government being the federally-appointed Federal Capital Territory Administration and its second highest level of elected government being its six area councils.

State legislatures

Name	City	Seats	Composition (as of)	Website
Abia State House of Assembly	Umuahia	24	18 PDP; 3 APC; 2 LP; 1 APGA (as of July 2022)[1][2]	abiastate.gov.ng/legislature
Adamawa State House of Assembly	Yola	25	14 PDP; 10 APC; 1 NNPP (as of 5 June 2022)[3][4]	N/A
Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly	Uyo	26	24 PDP; 2 YPP (as of July 2022)	akshouseofassembly.com
Anambra State House of Assembly	Awka	30	17 APGA; 7 PDP; 5 APC; 1 Vacant (as of 21 May 2022)[5][6][7]	N/A
Bauchi State House of Assembly	Bauchi	31	16 APC; 15 PDP (as of 17 April 2022)[8]	N/A
Bayelsa State House of Assembly	Yenagoa	24	20 PDP; 4 APC (as of 15 April 2021)[9]	N/A
Benue State House of Assembly	Makurdi	30	24 PDP; 5 APC; 1 ADC (as of 27 October 2021)[10]	N/A
Borno State House of Assembly	Maiduguri	30	30 APC (as of late 2020–early 2021)[11]	boha.bornostate.gov.ng
Cross River State House of Assembly	Calabar	25	18 APC; 7 PDP[a] (as of 16 March 2021)[12][13]	N/A
Delta State House of Assembly	Asaba	29	27 PDP; 2 APC (as of 22 September 2021)[14][15]	deltastate.gov.ng/assembly
Ebonyi State House of Assembly	Abakaliki	24	17 APC; 5 PDP; 2 Vacant[b] (as of 8 March 2022)[16]	ebonyistate.gov.ng/legislative.aspx
Edo State House of Assembly	Benin City	24[c]	9 PDP; 1 APC; 14 Vacant[c] (as of 1 February 2021)[17]	N/A
Ekiti State House of Assembly	Ado Ekiti	26	25 APC; 1 Vacant (as of 20 December 2021)[18]	ekitistate.gov.ng/executive-council/legislature/
Enugu State House of Assembly	Enugu	24	24 PDP (as of 16 December 2020)[19]	N/A
Gombe State House of Assembly	Gombe	24	21 APC; 3 PDP (as of 6 March 2022)[20][21][22]	gombestate.gov.ng/legislative-2
Imo State House of Assembly	Owerri	27	21 APC; 5 PDP; 1 Vacant[d] (as of 24 December 2021)[23][24][25][26]	N/A
Jigawa State House of Assembly	Dutse	30	30 APC (as of early 2021)[27]	jigawastate.gov.ng/state-asembly_1.php
Kaduna State House of Assembly	Kaduna	31	20 APC; 10 PDP; 1 Vacant (as of 15 December 2021)[28]	kdsg.gov.ng/legistative/
Kano State House of Assembly	Kano	40	30 APC; 9 NNPP; 1 PDP (as of 15 May 2022)[29][30][31][32][33][34]	kanoassembly.gov.ng/
Katsina State House of Assembly	Katsina	34	34 APC (as of late 2020–early 2021)[35]	N/A
Kebbi State House of Assembly	Birnin Kebbi	24	24 APC (as of 24 August 2021)[36][37]	kebbistate.gov.ng/lagislative
Kogi State House of Assembly	Lokoja	25	25 APC (as of April 2021)[38]	N/A
Kwara State House of Assembly	Ilorin	24	21 APC; 1 PDP; 2 Vacant[e] (as of 19 May 2021)[39][40][16][41]	kwha.gov.ng/
Lagos State House of Assembly	Ikeja	40	40 APC (as of 20 December 2020)[42]	lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng
Nasarawa State House of Assembly	Lafia	24	20 APC; 3 PDP; 1 ZLP[f] (as of 13 September 2021[44])	nasarawastate.gov.ng/the-legislature/
Niger State House of Assembly	Minna	27	26 APC; 1 PDP (as of early 2021)[45]	N/A
Ogun State House of Assembly	Abeokuta	26	25 APC; 1 PDP (as of 23 February 2021)[46]	ogha.og.gov.ng
Ondo State House of Assembly	Akure	26	22 APC; 2 PDP; 1 ZLP; 1 Vacant[g] (as of 31 March 2022)[47][48][16]	ondostate.gov.ng/index.php/hoa-members
Osun State House of Assembly	Osogbo	26	23 APC; 3 PDP (as of 6 June 2019)[49]	N/A
Oyo State House of Assembly	Ibadan	32	26 PDP; 5 APC; 1 ADP (as of 10 June 2019)[50]	oyostate.gov.ng/the-legislature
Plateau State House of Assembly	Jos	24	14 APC; 7 PDP; 1 LP; 2 Vacant (as of 22 March 2022)[51][52][53][54]	N/A
Rivers State House of Assembly	Port Harcourt	32	32 PDP (as of 10 June 2019)[55][56]	riversstate.gov.ng/legislative
Sokoto State House of Assembly	Sokoto	30	17 PDP; 13 APC (as of 14 April 2022)[57]	N/A
Taraba State House of Assembly	Jalingo	24	15 PDP; 5 APC; 4 Vacant (as of 22 June 2022)[58]	tarabastate.gov.ng/legislative-branch
Yobe State House of Assembly	Damaturu	24	24 APC (as of 2021)[59]	yobestate.gov.ng/legislative Archived 28 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine
Zamfara State House of Assembly	Gusau	24	21 APC; 1 PDP; 2 Vacant (as of 10 February 2022)[60][61][62][63][64]	N/A

Notes

1. 18 PDP assemblymen defected the APC, but in March 2022 their seats were declared vacant by a court. As appeals are expected to the judgement, the practical situation remains at the status quo.
2. The seats of two PDP legislators from Ebonyi were declared vacant due to their defection to the APC; however, both accused the House of forging their defection letters. Appeals are expected to the decision.
3. As of March 2022, 14 HOA members (all APC) have not taken office due to a longstanding dispute over their swearing-ins; because of this situation, the practical number of members is ten with nine PDP members and one APC member.
4. In December 2021, Speaker Kennedy Ibe (APC) suspended three APC members due to "dereliction of duty" but in March 2022, one of the suspended assemblymen defected to the PDP. Ibe promptly declared that lawmaker's seat vacant; pending litigation, the practical situation is 19 APC; 5 PDP; 1 Vacant.
5. In July 2021, the Kwara HOA suspended one PDP member due to "contempt and abuse of privilege;" due to this suspension, the practical situation is just 21 APC members. Months later, in March and May 2022, the HOA declared two members' seat vacant after they defected from the APC to the SDP; the matter is currently in court.
6. In September 2021, the Nasarawa HOA suspended one PDP member due to "alleged involvement in the employment of 38 fake secondary school teachers"; due to this suspension, the practical situation is 20 APC; 2 PDP; 1 ZLP.^[43]
7. In March 2022, the Ondo HOA declared a member's seat vacant after he defected from the APC to the PDP; the matter is currently in court.

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