Alhaji Isiyaku Ibrahim, a multibillionaire businessman and a renowned fundraiser of the former National Party of Nigeria (NPN) during the aborted Second Republic, has expressed his dissatisfaction with President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, claiming that Nigerians are dying of hunger.
He stated he gave his native state of Nasarawa to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and financed newspaper advertorials to garner support for President Buhari’s success, but he regretted the plight in which many Nigerians found themselves when Buhari took office.
Prior to Buhari’s arrival to the Presidential Villa, he said, the President and Alhaji Mamman Daura paid a visit to late Alhaji Umaru Dikko and asked for forgiveness.
Remember that General Buhari’s military administration attempted to kidnap Umaru Dikko in London, but the attempt failed.
Isiyaku Ibrahim claimed that late Umaru Dikko told Buhari and Mamman Daura that the problem was over and that he later contacted him (Isiyaku) to inform him that the two were on their way to meet him.
“Buhari, what happened, they went to Kaduna, he and Mamman Daura. They went to apologize to Umaru Dikko. Umaru Dikko said ‘you did your own, Allah knows and he protected me.”
He claimed that Umaru Dikko was aware of his irritability and called to calm him down before Buhari and Mamman Daura arrived.
After listening to them, he chose to embrace Buhari’s political path and financed newspaper advertorials urging Nigerians to vote for him, assuring Buhari’s victory in Nasarawa state, despite the fact that “he didn’t win Local Government in Daura.”
When asked if he is happy now by the interview’s anchor, a Katsina native who works for Trust TV, Isiyaku Ibrahim responded as follows:
”How can you say I’m happy? I’m a democrat. I’ve never seen my country in this kind of situation. People are dying, people have no food. In my area I have to be sending….in Katsina I don’t know whether you people are doing well,” he replied.
When late Chief Solomon Lar pleaded with him to help the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the former NPN strongman disclosed that he gave the party a N10 million start-up grant.
He claimed he went to Chief Harry Akande, whom he said he had assisted in obtaining jobs worth billions of naira, and Harry gave him a N10 million draft, which he passed over to late Solomon Lar.
“I organized fundraising, that night I raise N78 million for them,” he added.
“I organized fundraising,” he added, “and that night I raised N78 million for them.”
Isiyaku Ibrahim claimed he had never aspired to hold a political job since he couldn’t take people’s garbage, but he could promote people in politics to be anything.
