Former national chairman and first national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vincent Ogbulafor, is dead. He was confirmed dead by a
Former national chairman and first national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vincent Ogbulafor, is dead.
He was confirmed dead by a family source on Friday, October 7.
The source stated that Ogbulafor died on Thursday, October 6, in Canada, at the age of 73 from an undisclosed ailment.
Ogbulafor was from Olokoro, in Umuahia South local government of Abia state.
He was the first PDP’s national secretary before he later became the party’s national chairman after a bitter national battle between Senator Sam Egwu and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
He was forced to resign as PDP national chairman by the powers that be, when he fell out with them.
Ogbulafor became PDP national chairman on March 8, 2008, and started his tenure on a controversial note with his comments in which he sounded magisterial that he did not care if Nigeria became a one-party state.
He was reputed to have boasted that the PDP will rule for 40 years which did not come to pass, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) truncated that dream and eventually defeated it in 2015.
He was succeeded as national chairman of the main opposition party by the former governor of Enugu state, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo.
