JUST IN: Former PDP National Chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor, is Dead
By Ozumi Abdul
A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, is dead.
He was confirmed dead by a family source, who added that the erstwhile PDP National Chairman died from an undisclosed ailment in Canada, at the age of 73.
“Ogbulafor is from Olokoro, in Umuahia South local government of Abia State.
“He was born on May 24, 1949, and died peacefully on Thursday night”, the family source stated.
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Ogbulafor was first PDP’s National Secretary before he later became National Chairman after a bitter battle between Senator Sam Egwu and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
He was forced to resign as PDP national chairman by a party crisis.
Ogbulafor was later charged with an alleged financial recklessness while serving as a minister.
He was said to have boasted that the PDP will rule for 60 years which did not come to pass, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) truncated that dream and eventually defeated it in 2015.
Ogbulafor became PDP national chairman on March 8, 2008 and started his tenure on a controversial note with his statement in which he sounded magisterial that he did not care if Nigeria became a one-party state.
He was succeeded as national chairman by the former governor of Enugu State, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo.
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