Ex-Dep Senate President, Ex-Kwara Gov Die

A former deputy Senate President in the second republic, Senator John Wash Pam is dead. Senator Pam died at about 1.25 pm yesterday at the National Hospital Abuja following complications arising from prostate cancer.
Senator Pam, a prominent Berom elder from Foron district of Barakin Ladi local Government Area of Plateau State is survived by two wives and 18 children.
Senator  Pam was deputy senate president to senator Joseph Wayas from 1979 to 1983. He was said to have died in the presence of his son and his special assistant.
His death was confirmed by his first son, Mr. Ganan Wash Pam and his Special Assistant, Mr.Williams Chieshe Jnr.
“Baba died about one and half hours ago,he has been battling with prostrate cancer for a while.” Chieshe told our source in an interview.
Also the first civilian Governor of old Kwara State, Alhaji Adamu Attah is dead. He died yesterday in Abuja. Unconfirmed reports said he would be buried on Friday.
Attah was the governor of Kwara State from 1979 to 1983. He lost the 1983 governorship election to the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria’s candidate, Cornelius Adebayo, who was the state governor before the December 31, 1983 military coup led by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).
Kwara state Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed and his predecessor, Senator Bukola Saraki, have expressed sadness at the death of Attah.
Ahmed, in a statement issued by his Press Secretary, Oba Abdulwahab, expressed shock over the former governor’s death. Ahmed said with Attah’s death, Nigeria has lost the wisdom of an elder statesman.
The governor said, “I also commiserate with the government and people of Kogi State over the lost of this illustrious son who contributed immensely to building a strong nation where equity and justice will reign.”
Saraki in a condolence message signed by his media aide, Bankole Omisore, described Attah as a statesman of repute and a stakeholder in the Nigeria project, whose records and antecedent are clear in the history of Kwara and Nigerian politics.
“Though gone, the impact of Alhaji Adamu Attah cannot be under estimated in Kwara politics and apparently, his role and contributions in the administration of Kwara State. His departure is painful, but the fact that his wealth of wisdom in the history of Kwara State administration will be missed and it is more painful. I commiserate with immediate family of Alhaji Attah, the people of Kogi State and most especially the Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Idris Wada, the Kwara State and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, and the entire people of Kwara State and Nigeria as a whole for losing one of our illustrious sons. I pray almighty Allah to comfort his family and may Allah grants the departed soul Aljana Fridauz”, he said.