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JUST IN: Obadiah Mailafia, former CBN Deputy Governor, is dead
Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and prominent voice of the Southern Kaduna people, is dead. He was 64.
Details of his death, according to Daily Trust, are still sketchy but sources said that he died after a brief illness.
A fierce critic of the Buhari administration, Mailafia drew the ire of the Federal Government when he alleged on a radio interview that a serving governor from one of the northern states in Nigeria was a commander of Boko Haram terrorist group.
He was promptly summoned by the Department of State Security (DSS), where he was grilled for hours and made to report to the agency several times thereafter.
Obadiah’s allegation has since been corroborated by a former military intelligence chief, who gave further insight into the war against terror in Nigeria.
He contested the 2019 presidential election under the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and lost.
READ: DSS invites Mailafia over comment on sponsorship of Boko Haram
He worked at the African Development Bank (AFDB) and served as CBN deputy governor between 2005 and 2007.
Born on December 24, 1956 in Randa village, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State, his father was Baba Mailafia Gambo Galadima, an evangelist with the Evangelical Reformed Church of Central Nigeria.
Mailafia was raised as a missionary child in a multiracial environment.
His parents later transferred to Murya, Lafia, in Nasarawa State, where he grew up.
He started his education at Musha Sudan United Mission School from 1964 to 1969 and proceeded to Mada Hills Secondary School, Akwanga, Nasarawa, from 1970 to 1974. He later proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he bagged a first-class degree in Economics.
