A former Senator, who represented Kebbi South district in the Nigerian Senate, Danladi Bamaiyi, is dead.
Mr. Bamaiyi was a senator between 1999 and 2003 during which he chaired the Senate Committee on foreign contracts verification.
Family sources confirmed that the late Senator died in the early hours of Saturday in Abuja after a protracted illness.
He was a relation of a former Chief of Army staff, Ishaya Bamaiyi.
The late senator is survived by a wife and three children.
Incumbent Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, who also spoke to our reporter prayed for the repose of the soul of the departed lawmaker and also condoled the family as well as the people of Kebbi State over his demise .
