A road accident has claimed the life of Mr Hassan Husseini, a dedicated outrider to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.

Husseini died on Sunday while travelling from Lagos to Ibadan to receive the Senate President.

He was reportedly crushed to death after a vehicle collided with his motorcycle.

Husseini, who hailed from Kogi State, was due to retire from service around February 2026.

According to a motion moved on the floor of the Senate in Abuja on Tuesday by the Senator representing Kogi West, Sunday Karimi, the late outrider is survived by his widow and four children.

“A careless driver crushed him. He was married with four children,” Karimi told his colleagues.

Before the formal motion was moved, the Senate President had earlier informed the chamber of Husseini’s death, disclosing that he was buried on Tuesday morning.

Akpabio recommended the employment of two of the deceased’s children in government parastatals, adding that in the absence of vacancies, they could be engaged in any of his private concerns.

Similarly, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Customs, Senator Isah Jibrin, also lost his official driver.

The driver, Ibrahim Tukur, according to the Senate, was buried in accordance with Islamic rites.

The Senate observed a minute of silence in honour of the departed and offered condolences to the government and people of Kogi State, as well as the bereaved families. (TRIBUNE)

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