The Northern Governors Forum has described the death of former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia as a great loss to the nation as well as the entire Northern region, even as the President Para-Mallam Peace Foundation Reverend Gideon Para-Mallam has described the late former Deputy Governor of Central Bank Dr Obadiah Mailafia as a man of courage and a brilliant intellectual saying Nigeria has lost a voice.
It would be recalled that Reverend Gideon Para-mallam was the one that stood surety for the deceased last year during his travail in the hand of men of Department of State Security Services in Jos, Plateau State.
“I can’t believe it, we have lost a voice, he was a man of courage, a brilliant intellectual, someone who had a passion for this country, someone who is ready to lay down his life for this country.
“We have lost a man of integrity, lost a voice in nation, the church has lost a voice but we are comforted because God is in control of all situations” Rev. Para-mallam
The chairman Northern Governors Forum Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State said the death of Dr Mailafia is a sad development not only to his family but to the nation because of his enormous contributions to the socio-economic pursuits of Nigeria.
Lalong described the late CBN Deputy Governor as a consummate financial expert and vibrant intellectual whose local and international reputation is highly acknowledged, having been sought and deployed for the benefit of Government and private entities around the world.
While commiserating with the family, Lalong said the legacies of Dr Mailafia will continue to be celebrated as he showed passion for development, emancipation, truth, justice and equity in all his interventions at various platforms.
He said such aspirations for a better Nigeria and the upliftment of the downtrodden motivated him to vie for the office of the President in 2019 which afforded him the opportunity to expose his vision for a better Nigeria.
Lalong extended the Forum’s sympathies to Governor Nasir el-Rufai, the Government and the people of Kaduna State.
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