Rip Alert: Senate Clerk is Dead

Acting Clerk of the Senate Adedotun Durojaiye is dead.

He died late yesterday according to sources. There was no official confirmation as at last night.

Sources said the Lagos-born civil servant had been ill for some time before he died at an Abuja Hospital.

He was promoted as acting clerk of the senate in April 2014. He was in charge of the inauguration of the eighth senate and conducted the elections of principalofficers on June 9 which produced Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy Ike Ekweremadu.