{"id":86090,"date":"2021-09-19T12:52:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=86090"},"modified":"2021-09-19T12:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:52:36","slug":"breaking-former-presidential-candidate-cbn-deputy-governor-obadiah-mailafia-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-former-presidential-candidate-cbn-deputy-governor-obadiah-mailafia-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Former Presidential Candidate, CBN Deputy Governor Obadiah Mailafia is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1711328965742586469\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the 2019 Presidential Candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr Obadiah Mailafia is dead.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to a source, the 64-year-old statesman died early on Sunday at the National Hospital Abuja.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mailafia was born on 24 December 1956 in the village of Randa in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State. His father Baba Mailafia Gambo Galadima was an evangelist with the Evangelical Reformed Church of Central Nigeria (ERCC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">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.<\/p>\n<p>He started his elementary education at Musha Sudan United Mission School from 1964 to 1969 and proceeded to Mada Hills Secondary School, Akwanga from 1970 to 1974. He was a keen sportsman, debater and scholar; winning the Commissioner of Education&#8217;s Award as the most outstanding pupil of the graduating class of 1974. For his A \u2018Levels, he attended the School of Basic Studies (SBS) at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, between 1974 and 1975. He later proceed and 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 Civilization from the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1985. In 1986 he also earned the Dipl\u00f4me (equivalent to an M.Phil.) in international economics from the Institut International d\u2019Administration Public (IIAP), the international wing and sister institution of the prestigious \u00c9cole nationale d&#8217;administration (ENA) of France. Mailafia later proceeded to the United Kingdom as a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Scholar at Oriel College, earning a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1995.[8]<\/p>\n<p>He was persuaded to join politics after the famous historic \u201chandshake\u201d by the coalition of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) and the South Afenifere of Yoruba land, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and PANDEF of Niger Delta.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the 2019 Presidential Candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr Obadiah Mailafia is dead. 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