The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, and Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu have on Sunday said the sudden demise of former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Deputy Governor, Obadiah Mailafia is a loss of a great voice in the struggle to emancipate Nigeria.
This is just as Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu sympathised with the family of Dr Obadiah Mailafia, describing his death as “a sad loss for Nigeria”.
The National President of MBF, Dr Bitrus Pogu, in his reaction in Makurdi said the vacuum created in the Middle Belt and the entire country by the death of Dr Mailafia would be very difficult to fill.
According to him, “the death of Dr Mailafia is a great loss to the Middle Belt and the whole of the country particularly at a time when we need voices like his; he is one of the people who could talk or fearlessly tell truth to power, we lost a patriot.
“His death has created a great vacuum that will be difficult to fill. Painfully while we were struggling along with our brothers in other parts of the country to ensure that Nigeria is restructured, we, some few months back also lost Yinka Odumakin and now it is Mailafia, it hurts.
“It’s a great loss to all of us and we are just praying that in spite of all odds that God will comfort the country and the family he left behind because we have lost a great voice not just in the Middle Belt but the entire country in the struggle for the emancipation of Nigeria.”
Moreover, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu has sympathised with the family of Dr Obadiah Mailafia while describing the death of the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as “a sad loss for Nigeria”.
In a post on his social media page, the 2019 presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) said; “The death of Dr Obadiah Mailafia, Deputy Governor @cenbank from 2005-2007, is a sad loss for Nigeria. My condolences to his family and the Middle Belt region whose cause he championed in recent years. May his soul rest in peace”.
From 2010 to 2015, Dr Mailafia was the chief of staff (Chef de Cabinet) to the 79-member nation African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States based in Brussels, Belgium.
In this capacity he was the most senior adviser to the secretary-general, overseeing the strategic management function; liaising with external partners such as the European Commission, European Parliament, European Investment Bank (EIB), UN agencies and the IMF and World Bank.
He was the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) during the 2019 elections.
