Labour Party chairman dies in road crash

The Kaduna state Labour Party Chairman, Mallam Lawal Garba has lost his life 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, on Monday.

In a statement on Tuesday by the Chief Spokesman of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, said Peter Obi mourned the death of the chairman.

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.”