Disbelief, As Obadiah Mailafia, Former CBN DG, Dies

Academic, Scholar, Economist, Newspaper Columnist, Politician, unrepentant critic of the President Muhammadu Buhari regime, former Deputy Governor of the Central Dr Obadiah Mailafia is dead.

He died aged 64.

Disbelief and shock are the reactions.

He reportedly died at the  National Hospital, Abuja.

Dr Mailafia, the Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, during the 2019 General Elections talked himself into  national consciousness and running battle with Security Agents when, in a television interview, he accused an unnamed Northern Governor and some Politicians from the North of sponsoring Boko Haram.

He claimed to have been told by repentant insurgents, but taken to  task, he buckled and said he  heard from traders in a market. The controversy cost him his job at NIPSS, Kuru. From then on, he never relented in bemoaning  the state of insecurity in the country.

A weekly Columnist with Vanguard Newspapers, it is not clear yet what caused his sudden death.