Ahmed Idris Wase
Ahmed Idris, known as Ahmed Idris Wase, is a Nigerian politician who serves as the Deputy Speaker of the 9th Nigerian House of Representatives. He is a member of All Progressive Congress Education and personal life. Idris attended LSB Primary School Bashar in Wase, Plateau, Government Secondary school Mbar, Government Secondary school Dengi, Plateau Polytechnic, Kaduna Polytechnic and Harvard Kennedy School of Government United States. Political career. His political priorities are education, health, good roads and water. Also accredited to him are the following; sponsorship of students scholarships, infrastructural development which includes: solar street lights, hand pump  and motorized boreholes, renovation of primary healthcare centres, the building of skills acquisition centres, lobbying for the construction of roads and renovation of secondary and primary schools. He is an advocate for Youth Empowerment and poverty alleviation. He has achieved these through: issuing of grants to the Youths and providing welfare packages to the less privileged. He was elected Deputy speaker in 9th National Assembly, House of Representative, with 358 votes unopposed. Hon. Ahmed Wase came under fire after an incident that unfolded itself on 10 March where the Deputy Speaker of the House refused to consider a petition being  put on the table by the Mutual Union of Tiv in America (MUTA) through Mark Gbillah, the representative for Gwer East Federal Constituency of Benue State. The petition was regarding the dispossession of the Tiv people off their ancestral lands due to the herdsmen crisis. Hon. Wase responded "If they are in America could they really be an interested party here? Do they really know what is exactly going on?". Hon. Wase spokesperson concluded he was only questioning the legitimacy of the organization.