President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock and sadness at the death of Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah.

Buhari, in a statement by Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, described the late Leadership Newspaper Publisher as ” “a friend and ally.”

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The President expressed his condolences to 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,”

Sam Nda-Isaiah, a pharmacist was also a renowned columnist, and politician

He had contested the 2014 presidential primary against the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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