The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is mourning the death of Mallam Lawal Garba, one of the party’s Zonal Chairmen in the state of Kaduna. He died in a road accident while he was returning home after attending the party’s engagement with Northerners in Arewa House, Kachia.
According to Dr Yunusa Tanko, the campaign’s chief spokesman, the late Mallam Lawal Garba’s death was a shocking and devastating event that has affected the entire Labour Party. In a statement, the presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi, described the death of the former 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 Statesman had joined other party faithful to see off the presidential candidate and his vice, Datti Baba Ahmed, who was 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.
