The publisher of Leadership newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah, is dead.

The deceased was aged 58.

Multiple sources from his family and the newspaper organization confirmed that he died on Friday “after a very brief illness.”

He was born on May 1, 1962.

A trained pharmacist, Nda-Isaiah was a politician and newspaper columnist.

He was a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, he was one of the party’s presidential aspirants for the 2015 election.