Lawan describes Aluko’s death as shocking
By Emma Ogbuehi
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has sent his condolences to the family of former Senator, Gbenga Aluko, who died at the weekend.
Lawan also commiserated with the Government and people of Ekiti State over the sad incident.
He described the sudden death of Senator Gbenga Aluko as “shocking and painful.”
He said Aluko, who was once a Principal Officer of the Senate, gave a good account of himself in the upper chamber between 1999 and 2003.
“Senator Gbenga Aluko served his fatherland diligently at the highest level of lawmaking. He also made bold imprints in private enterprise. He will be sorely missed,” Lawan said.
The Senate President prayed for God to comfort all his loved ones and grant them the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
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Aluko, former senator and governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, died in Abuja, on Saturday, at the age of 58. He reportedly died after collapsing in his office in Abuja.
Senator Gbenga Aluko, who was born on 20 July 1963, was the son of renowned economist, the late Sam Aluko.
He was elected Senator for the Ekiti South constituency of Ekiti State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People’s Democratic Party platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.
He was a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti in 2018.
He attended Federal Government College, Ilorin, before he was admitted to the University of Benin, where he graduated in 1982 with a degree in Geography and Regional Planning.
The late senator went on to the College of Energy and Petroleum Studies, Oxford, England for a Postgraduate Course in International Oil Trading and Pricing.
Positions held between 1983 and 1999 included Managing Director/CEO of HYGYNIX, Executive Director of Baseline Petroleum and Chemicals and Executive Chairman of Independent Strategists.
He was appointed Special Assistant to the Minister of Transport and Aviation and General Manager of Nigeria Shippers’ Council from 1993 to 1995, before venturing into politics in 1999.