Buhari’s Critic, Former Presidential Candidate Is Dead

A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Obadiah Mailafia is dead. Mailafia also contested the 2019 presidential elections under the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). He recently created a storm when he alleged that a northern governor is one of the leaders of Boko Haram.

Subsequently, the Department of State Services (DSS) invited the former CBN deputy governor over the allegation and grilled him for hours before letting him go.

During one of the invitation, while speaking with journalists, he said he spoke as a citizen who loves his country.
He said: “Let me say this clearly; this has nothing to do with politics. I spoke as a citizen who loves this country and the voice of thousands of voiceless people.

Muslim youths have taken me as their voice, likewise the Christian youths.” According to a source, the 64-year-old former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) died at the National Hospital Abuja, Vanguard newspaper reports. Until his death, the former CBN deputy governor has been a social critic. Mailafia was born on 24 December 1956 in the village of Randa in Sanga local government area of Kaduna state.