Osama al nujaifi biography of mahatma

11th vice president of Iraq

Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi^[4] (Arabic: أسامة النجيفي; born c. 1956) is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three vice presidents of the country, from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018.

As the speaker of the Council of Representatives, the informal leader of the moderate Sunni al-Hadba party was the highest ranking Sunni politician of Iraq.

An engineer by profession, al-Nujaifi served as Minister of Industry in the 2005–06 Iraqi Transitional Government.

He later won the 2010 parliamentary election and was elected the Speaker of the Council of Representatives.

During this time, he built up a reputation as prime ministeral-Maliki staunchest adversary, whom as a Sunni he could defy but not challenge. After leaving offices together with al-Maliki in 2014, he was rewarded the ceremonial post of a Vice President of Iraq, which he held until 2015.

The positions of all three Vice Presidents was restored in October 2016.