One of the most vocal critics of the Buhari government, Obadiah Mailafia, has passed on.
Mailafia, who was a former Deputy Governor at the Central Bank of Nigeria, died overnight at the age of 64.
He was said to have had a brief illness.
Among other isues, Mailafia claimed that a sitting governor was a commander of Boko Haram, while he also faulted the CBN’s transfer iof forex transaction to banks.
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 an 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.
He joined partisan politics in 2018 amid the rising killings in Southern Kaduna.
