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REVEALED: 5 things about late Dr. Obadiah Mailafia

Dr Obadiah Mailafia, who passed on last Sunday, particularly come into the general public eyes in 2020 after he made sensitive statements about the state of insecurity in the Northern region of the country. 

His statements, which he later recanted, got him heavily scrutinised by security operatives. Well, here are things you probably don’t know about Dr Obadiah Mailafia.

  1. He alleged that a northern governor was a commander of the Boko Haram terrorist group.
  2. He campaigned for the presidency under the African Democratic Congress, (ADC), in the 2019 election.
  3. He was a top banker who rose to the heights of deputy governor of CBN.
  4. He bagged a B.Sc. from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1978 where he graduated top of his class. He later obtained an M.Sc. from the same institution.
  5. He earned a DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK, in 1995.

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