A former two-time Senator from Katsina State, Kanti Bello, is dead.
Bello died in the early hours of Tuesday, in Abuja.
The lawmaker, who represented Daura Senatorial Zone from 2003 to 2007, and from 2007 to 2011, was the pioneer Managing Director of Katsina Steel Rolling Mill.
Bello’s death was confirmed in a terse statement by the younger brother to former Katsina State Deputy Governor, Abdullahi Faskari.
“I am directed to inform everybody that we lost Senator Kanti Bello (in) early hours of this mourning (Tuesday) at Abuja. Burial arrangement will be announced later,” he said.
Bello, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State, had recently claimed that he regretted inviting President Muhammadu Buhari into politics.
The former Senate Chief Whip explained that his regret was predicated on the fact that the past two years of Buhari’s government has been “waste.”