IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Labour Party flag bearer, Peter Obi, is in grief following the tragic death of Mallam Lawal Garba, the party’s zonal chairman in Kaduna state on Monday.
The former Governor of Anambra paid tribute to his fellow party member via Twitter on Tuesday, 18 October, 2022.
Obi tweeted: “I’m shocked by the news of the sudden and tragic death of Mallam Lawal Garba last night in a fatal vehicular accident.
“Mallam Garba was in attendance at the Arewa House interactive session. His death is a huge loss to his family, the Labour Party family in Kaduna State and the Kaduna people.
“I pray for the peaceful repose of his soul and that God Almighty will grant his family the fortitude to bear this huge loss.-PO”
According to Vanguard, Garba died in an auto-crash along the Kaduna-Zaria road while on his way back from the party’s activity in the state capital on Monday, 17 October.
In a statement signed by the Chief Spokesman of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, in Abuja, on Tuesday, Obi said, he was saddened by the news of the sudden death of Mallam Lawal Garba.
Obi was quoted as describing the news of Mallam Garba’s death, ” just an hour after left us as devastating and shocking.
“He was a great party leader, a great guide and adviser to the Labour Party in the planning and prosecution of the Presidential Campaigns.
“My heart goes to the family, the teeming Labour Party members, the Obidients family, the entire people of Tudun Wada and the Kaduna State in general.”
The Elder Stateman had joined other party faithful to see off the presidential candidate and his vice, Datti Baba Ahmed, who were returning to Abuja after the engagement at the Arewa House to the Kaduna Airport and was going back home when the accident occurred.
Obi noted that the late party chieftain died a martyr because he lost his life fighting to rescue the Nigerian State from total collapse.
The LP Presidential Candidate prayed for God to grant the late patriarch’s soul eternal rest even as he urged members of the party and the Obidients family to work harder to ensure victory for Labour candidates in the forthcoming general elections so that his death will not be in vain.