The senator representing Bauchi South at the Senate, Ali Wakil, is dead.
He died after a brief illness on Saturday, a source close to the family has revealed.
He was 58.
Efforts to speak to the Senate spokesperson, Sabi Abdullahi, did not yield any result as he neither picked his calls nor replied text messages.
The late senator, it was gathered, slumped at his Gwarimpa residence in Abuja.
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Enroute to celebrate with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and family on their daughter’s wedding, Senate president, Bukola Saraki said: ”I just heard about the passing of my friend and colleague, Senator Ali Wakili. I am on my way to the Wakili house to pay my respects to his family”.
Wakili had an accomplished career in the Nigerian Customs Service before he retired for politics.
