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Less than a month after the death of Uche Chukwumerije, a serving senator who represented Abia north senatorial district between 2003 and 2015, Ahmed Zanna, the lawmaker representing Borno central senatorial district, has also passed on.

Unlike Chukwumerije, Zanna, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won his re-election bid in April and was looking forward to his inauguration as a member of the 8th assembly in June.

Though Enyinnaya Abaribe, spokesman of the senate confirmed the death, saying it happened in Abuja in the early hours of Saturday, details of the death are still sketchy but he was said to have lost his battle to a terminal ailment.

Apart from Zannah and Chukwumerije, three other senators died in the 7th senate.

Gyang Dalyop Dantong of PDP Plateau north died in 2012. He was a victim of an attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen while attending the burial of more than 300 people murdered in an earlier attack in Riyom and Barkin Ladi local government areas of the state. The soldiers fled and more than a hundred mass-burial sympathisers were killed in the attack.

Pius Ewherido died a year after he was elected into the senate, after collapsing in his house to be rushed to the national hospital, Abuja.

Awaisu Kuta of PDP Niger East could not also witness the end of his tenure in the red chamber of the national assembly, as he died in June 2014 in Lagos en route to a medical checkup.