October 18, (THEWILL) – The Zonal Chairman of the Labour party (LP) in Kaduna State, Mallam Lawal Garba, is dead.
Garba died on Monday, in a fatal road car crash along the Kaduna-Zaria road on his way back home from the party’s engagement with Northern stakeholders in Arewa House, Kaduna.
Chief Spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign, Dr Yunusa Tanko, confirmed the sad development in a statement on Tuesday.
Expressing his shock, the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, said he was saddened by the news of the sudden death of Mallam Lawal Garba.
He described the news of Mallam Garba’s death, ”just an hour after he 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”, he said.
The Elder Statesman 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 would not be in vain.
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