Leadership Publisher, Nda-Isaiah, is Dead

The Publisher of Leadership newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah, is dead.

He was 58.

President Mohammadu Buhari in a condolence message described the deceased, who was born on May 1, 1962 as a friend and Ally.

It was gathered that he died on Friday “after a very brief illness.”

“Yes, it is true. I was just told now,” a family member told our correspondent on the telephone on Friday evening.

When asked if he had been sick, the source simply said “yes, but very briefly.”

A trained pharmacist, Nda-Isaiah was a politician and newspaper columnist.

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, he was one of the party’s presidential aspirants for the 2015 election.

He alongside former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former Governor Rochas Okorocha and former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso among others lost the ticket to Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) who later won the election by beating the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Goodluck Jonathan.