The Publisher of Abuja-based Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah, is dead.
Nda-Isaiah, pharmacist, renowned columnist, and one time presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) died in Abuja on Friday.
Reacting, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed shock and sadness at the death of Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah, a man he describes as “a friend and ally.”
The President condoles with the media fraternity, the Nda-Isaiah family, friends and associates of the deceased, saying “the country has lost a man of conviction, a resolute and dogged believer in a better Nigeria.”
“He will be sorely missed. This is a massive fish gone out of the media ocean,” Presidential Media Adviser, Femi Adesina, quoted President Buhari as saying further in a statement on Saturday.