A former senator representing, Ekiti South in the National Assembly (1999-2003), on the platform of People Democratic Party, (PDP), Senator Gbenga Aluko, is dead.
He was aged 58, ROYAL NEWS reports.
The Ode-Ekiti-born politician was said to have died on Saturday after he collapsed in his office in Abuja.
According to Television Continental, he was rushed to a hospital where he passed on. TVC reported that one of Aluko’s aides who spoke on condition of anonymity told Radio Nigeria that Aluko was neither sick nor exhibited any symptom of sickness.
Another source disclosed that the late politician died of a heart attack. He was the son of the late economist, Professor Sam Aluko.
Aluko in 2018 contested the governorship ticket on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State.
