•Late Ghali Umar Naaba
The leadership of the National Consultative Front (NCFront), popularly known as the 3rd Force Movement of Nigeria, says it is in a mourning mood along with its numerous members across the country and in Diaspora.
In a statement issued last night and made available to The Frontier, the 3rd Force said it is mourning the demise of its founding co-chairman and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Naaba who died at 65 in the early hours of Wednesday and was buried same day in Kano according to Muslim rites.
“It will be recalled that Ghali Naaba before his last minute exit from the NCFront co pioneered the national interventions of the NCFront with Prof Pat Utomi, Prof Attahiru Jega, Dr Obadiah Mailafiah of blessed memory, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Prof Kingsley Moghalu, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, among others Eminent Nigerians in the run up to the 2023 elections, trying to create a viable popular alternative political force to the APC and PDP in Nigeria,” the statement signed by Head, National Secretariat of the
NCFront, Comrade Olawale Okunniyi (Veteran Che), said.
“In the process of leading the 3rd Force Movement, Na’aba ran into a clash with Nigerian State and its security agency, which invited him for questioning on three occasions given his radical stance on political corruption in the country, ditto for the late Obadiah Mailafiah, who was invited and detained by the Security operatives before his demise.
“Both Na’aba and Malaifia were in the forefront of the struggles of the 3rd Force Movement that eventually gave Nigerians electronic transmission of Elections results, a victory later circumvented by INEC during the 2023 Presidential Elections,” it was further said.
“Similarly, the NCFront wishes to commiserate with the people of Ondo State on the shocking demise of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who passed on Wednesday in a German Hospital. It’s our prayers that God gives his family and people of Ondo State the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss. Akeredolu will be greatly missed for his firm stand on true Federalism in Nigeria,” the statement added.
