Senator Bukar Abba-Ibrahim (APC-Yobe East) said on Thursday that he will be in the Senate for the rest of his life.
Ibrahim had served as Yobe governor three times before he went to the Senate in 2007. He was re-elected in 2011 and for the third time in 2015.
He is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ecology and Climate Change.
His wife, Khadija Bukar Ibrahim, was at the House of Representatives also for the third time until President Muhammadu Buhari made her Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in 2015.
While he was contributing to a debate on the 57th anniversary of the country, the former governor said only death will take him away from the upper chamber.
“We are very grateful to God and to all Nigerians. Let me categorically say, Mr. Senate President, that I will stay in the Senate until death do us part. Everybody tells me that I’m Senator for life. I’m going to be in the Senate for life.” he said .
Responding, the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, jokingly asked the Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan (APC-Yobe North) and Senator Mohammad Hassan (APC-Yobe South) who were all from Yobe State to take note.
