Senator Ajuji Waziri, the husband of ex-chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Farida Waziri, is dead.

Pulse reliably gathered that Senator Waziri passed away on Easter Monday, April 17, 2017 after a brief illness.

The Gombe State indigene lost his ticket for re-election into the Senate in 2011 after a keenly contested process in his senatorial district.

In 2016, the Waziris lost their 39-year old daughter, Jackie Ifidon-Ola Waziri, to an undisclosed ailment at an Abuja Hospital.

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The news of Senator Waziri's death has left the former boss of EFCC and members of the Waziri family in grief