BREAKING: Mourning as former influential PDP senator loses wife

The former Leader of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) parliament, and Senator who represented Abia North in the eighth Senate, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has lost his wife, Lady Nimi Faith Ohuabunwa.

The late Lady Ohuabunwa, a lawyer died in an Abuja hospital, on Saturday, July 22, after a prolonged ailment.

The senator under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced the death of his wife in a post shared on his Facebook page accompanied by pictures.

On Monday morning, July 24, he wrote: "On a very sad note but in total submission to the will of God Almighty, my beloved wife and dotting mother to our lovely children has gone to be with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!

"We seek your prayers at this very difficult time for our family."