Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, has died
He passed on at the age of 64.
Mailafia reportedly died at midnight during a brief illness.
He was the Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2019 election.
He was a known government critic and had advocated public sector and exchange rate reforms.
Mailafia was born on December 24, 1956, in the Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
He later graduated top of his class at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1978 with a B.Sc.
Honours Social Sciences degree (Politics, Economics and Sociology). He also has a M.Sc. from the same institution.
He subsequently won a French Government Scholarship to France, where he earned a Certificate in French Language and Civilisation from the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1985.