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BREAKING: Powerful Senator and Wike’s ally is dead

The FrontierThe FrontierFebruary 19, 2026 2400 Minutes read0

•Late Senator Barry Mpigi

The Senator representing Rivers Southeast, Barry Mpigi, has been reported dead.

Multiple sources said Mpigi, said to be influential and a loyalist of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Minister, Chief Nyesom Wike, died at the age of 64, reports The Nation.

It was gathered that Mpigi died after a prolonged survival battle against an undisclosed sickness

While some said he died in Abuja, others claimed he passed in a London hospital.

… developing story 

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