Joseph Wayas
Ex-senate president, Joseph Wayas dies
Nigeria’s Senate President during the Second Republic, Mr Joseph Wayas, is dead.
Cross Rivers State governor, Ben Ayade, made this known on Thursday in Calabar, the state capital.
Wayas, a Cross River born politician, was said to have passed away in a London Hospital in the early hours of Thursday after long battle with an undisclosed illness.
He was aged 80.
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 was a founding member of the now-defunct All People’s Party. He later joined the opposition People’s Democratic Party in 2002.
