Ali Wakili, an All
Progressives Congress (APC) senator from Bauchi state, is dead.
Yusuph
Olaniyonu, spokesman of Senate President Bukola Saraki, confirmed this to
TheCable on Saturday.
“I
can confirm that the lawmaker is dead but we don’t have the details at the
moment,” Olaniyonu said.
TheCable
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.
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