Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed sadness over the passing on of Nigeriaโs former President of the Senate, Senator Joseph Wayas, describing him as a veteran of the Nigerian legislature and key player in Nigeriaโs constitutional development.
Ekweremadu said the elder statesman would be sorely missed.
Reacting to the announcement of the demise of the former lawmaker by the Governor of Cross River State, Professor Ben Ayade, the Senator said: โI received with a deep sense of loss the passing on of elder statesman and Nigeriaโs former President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Joseph Wayas.
โThis is particularly a grievous loss to the Nigerian legislature and the nation as a whole. He was a veteran and an institutional memory bank of the Nigerian legislature, and a key player in Nigeriaโs constitutional development, having Deputy Chairman of the National Constitutional Conference Commission, which midwifed the 1994/1995 Constitutional Conference.
โSenator Wayas gave his all to the nation, had a tempering effect on the polity and acquitted himself most creditable as a patriot, pan-Nigerian, and people-vested political icon and leader.
โIt is sad that he passed on at this critical juncture in Nigeriaโs history when the wise counsels of elders of his status are most neededโ
He condoled with the Wayasโ family as well as the people and government of Rivers State over the loss and prayed God to grant the soul of the deceased eternal repose.
