Nigeria, Aug. 8 -- Ibrahim Musa, a former senator who represented Niger North Senatorial District between 2011 to 2015, is dead.

The former senator reportedly died in a hospital in Abuja after a protracted illness.

He was a legal practitioner and a prominent political figure in Niger State.

Mr Musa was elected into the Nigerian Senate in 2011 under the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC). He secured 131,872 votes to defeat the then-incumbent senator, Nuhu Aliyu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 83,778 votes.

Following the election, Mr Aliyu, who at the time was the chairman of the Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence, filed a petition at the Niger State Election Petition Tri...