FORMER Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, who represented Kwara South in the 8th National Assembly, has passed on at 58 years of age. Ibrahim, who died about 4.30am, yesterday, at an Abuja hospital, has been buried according to Islamic rites in a Muslim cemetery, Osere, in Ilorin, Kwara State.
The deceased was, reportedly, an ally of former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and served in the Senate from 2015 to 2019. He was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions in the 8th Assembly.
Mourning the politician, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, stated: “I received with shock and profound sadness reports of the death of Senator Rafiu Ibrahim of the PDP after a brief illness.”
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, added, in the statement, that the governor sent his “heartfelt condolences to the family of the late senator, the people of…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
