Senator Ali Wakili, chairman
senate committee on poverty is dead.
The senator was said to have died
in the early hours of today, Saturday, in his Abuja residence.
However, no statement has so far
been released by the family in confirmation of the senator’s death.
Nigerian Eye had repeatedly called
to confirmed the sad incident from the senator’s personal assistant but his
lines were not going through.
But a source from Abuja, who
crave for anonymity confirmed the death.
As of the time of filling this
report, the details were sketchy.
UPDATE:
Ali Wakili, an All Progressives
Congress (APC) senator from Bauchi state, is dead.
Yusuph Olaniyonu, spokesman of
Senate President Bukola Saraki, confirmed this to on Saturday.
“I can confirm that the lawmaker
is dead but we don’t have the details at the moment,” Olaniyonu said.
We gathered that the
lawmaker, who was one of the guests at the wedding of the daughter of Aliko
Dangote, billionaire businessman, died in Abuja on Saturday.
He reportedly slumped at his
residence in Gwarimpa, Abuja, and was taken to a hospital where he was attended
to immediately.
The senate president said he
received the news while on his way to the wedding ceremony of one of the
daughters of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, and that he stopped over at the
residence of the deceased before continuing the journey.
Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the
house of representatives, who hails from the same state with Wakili, described
the death as devastating and heartbreaking.
He said the late lawmaker was a
“personal friend, true brother and dependable ally”.
“The death of Sen. Ali Wakili is
a personal loss to me. I’m short of words to describe how devastated and
heartbroken I am over the passing away of this true friend, brother and
confidant, with whom I had excellent brotherly relationship and association,”
he said in a statement.
“We in Bauchi state and in
particular, Bauchi south senatorial district, have lost a worthy ambassador and
a distinguished gentleman. But we’ll take solace in the fact that his
humanitarian services and other accomplishments will continue to be a source of
inspiration to us all.”
Aged 58, the lawmaker served as
chairman, senate committee on poverty alleviation until his death.
He joined politics after retiring
as comptroller in the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).
Wakili obtained his bachelor’s
degree in arts in 1982 from the Bayero University Kano (BUK).
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