Former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Obadiah Mailafia has passed on at age 64.
Mailafia reportedly died at the National Hospital Abuja.
He was in the news recently when he was invited by the Department of State Devices for saying without evidence that a state governor was the commander of Boko Haram.
Born on December 24, 1956, in the Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Mailafia was the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2019 election.
He graduated top of his class at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1978 with a B.Sc. honours in Social Sciences (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.
Mailafia later proceeded to the United Kingdom as a Foreign and Commonwealth Office scholar at Oriel College, earning a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1995.
