The former National Chairman and first National Secretary of the current main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Vincent Ogbulafor is dead.
THISDAY quotes a family source as saying that he died peacefully on Thursday night in Canada at the age of 73 from an undisclosed ailment.
A native of Olokoro, in Umuahia South local government of Abia State, Ogbulafor was born in May 24, 1949.
He was the first PDP National Secretary before becoming the National Chairman after a personality battle between Senator Sam Egwu and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
Intra-party rivalry however, forced Vincent Ogbulafor to resign as PDP national chairman after which he was charged with an alleged financial recklessness while serving as a minister.
He is reputed to have boasted that the PDP will rule for 40 years, a dream that was truncated when the party was defeated at the polls by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015.
Ogbulafor became PDP national chairman on March 8, 2008 and started his tenure on a controversial note when he said 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.