Senator Adebayo Osinowo representing Lagos East Senatorial Zone in the Senate is dead after succumbing to an illness.
Osinowo was a member of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) was the chairman of the senate committee on commerce, industries and investment.
Osinowo who was 64 at the time of his death previously served in the Lagos House of Assembly.
While the nature of the illness he suffered has not been released to the public reports say that he died at a hospital in Lagos, where he was admitted for COVID-19 complications.
Osinowo’s death makes it the fourth time a senator is dying in recent months.
Among those who have died are Benjamin Uwajumogu, Ignatius Longjan and Rose Oko.