Senator Gbenga Aluko, a former legislator from Ode Ekiti in Ekiti state, has been reported dead after he collapsed in Abuja
By Kehinde Okeowo
A former senator and governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Senator Gbenga Aluko has died at the age of 58.
The Ode Ekiti-born politician reportedly died Saturday evening in Abuja.
According to TVC, the politician died on Saturday evening after he collapsed in his office in Abuja.
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He was reportedly taken to a hospital but pronounced dead upon reaching there.
The former senator, who was the Deputy Senate Whip between 1999 and 2003, was also reported not to be sick nor exhibit any symptoms of sickness.
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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 Shipper’s Council from 1993 to 1995, before venturing into politics in 1999.
