Ex-Senate President is deaɗ

Former Nigerian Senate President in the Second Republic Joseph Wayas is dead.

He died after a protracted illness at the age of 80 in a London hospital.

Wayas was born in Basang, Obudu, Cross River State on May 21, 1941.

He had his secondary school education at Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha before he went to the United Kingdom where he studied at the Higher Tottenham Technical College, London.

The former senate president also attended the West Bromwich College of Commerce, Science and Technology, Birmingham and Aston University, Birmingham.

Wayas served as third Senate President in 1979 to 1983 before the regime was truncated by a coup that installed the then General Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s head of state.

Late Wayas was a founding member of the now-defunct All People’s Party. He later joined the opposition People’s Democratic Party in 2002.