NORTHERN GOVERNORS MOURN: OBADIAH MAILAFIYA’S DEATH IS NOT ONLY A LOSS TO THE FAMILY, BUT TO THE NATION---GOV. LALONG

By: Valentine Adese (JP),

The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has described the death of former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafiya, “as a great loss to the nation, as well as, the entire  Northern region”.

Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Bako Lalong said the death of Dr. Mailafiya 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.

According to a press statement signed by, Dr. Makut Simon Macham, the Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Governor of Plateau State and Chairman, Northern Governors Forum(NGF), dated 20^th September, 2021, while commiserating with the family, Lalong said, “the legacies of Dr. Mailafiya, 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 extends the Forum’s sympathies to Governor Nasir el-Rufai, the Government and people of Kaduna State.