Multi-billionaire businessman and renowned financier of the
defunct National Party of Nigeria ( NPN) during the botched
Second Republic, Alhaji Isiyaku Ibrahim has said that he is
not happy with President Muhammadu Buhari administration
because Nigerians are dying of hunger.
According to him, prior to Buhari’s journey to the
Presidential Villa, the President and Alhaji Mamman Daura
visited late Alhaji Umaru Dikko and sought forgiveness.
Recall that the military regime of General Buhari tried to
kidnap Umaru Dikko in London, but the move was not
successful.
Isiyaku Ibrahim said late Umaru Dikko had told Buhari and
Mamman Daura that it was a bygone matter, and later called
him( Isiyaku) to let him know the duo was coming to meet
him.
” Buhari, what happened ( he swore in Arabic), 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 explained that Umaru Dikko knew he was hot-tempered
and called to pacify him before Buhari and Mamman Daura
came.
That after listening to them, he decided to support Buhari’s
political course and sponsored newspaper advertorials
asking Nigerians to vote for him, ensuring that he delivered
Nasarawa state for Buhari, even though” he didn’t win Local
Government in Daura. “
When asked if he is happy now by the anchor of the
interview who is an indigene of Katsina and works for Trust
TV, Isiyaku Ibrahim replied thus:
” 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
said.
The former NPN strong man revealed that he had assisted
the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) with a take-off grant of
N10 million, when late Chief Solomon Lar begged him to
assist the party, at inception.
He said he went to Chief Harry Akande who he had helped
to get work in billions, and Harry reciprocated by giving him
a N10 million draft which he handed over to late Solomon
Lar.
Also, “I organised fundraising, that night I raise N78 million
for them,” he said.
Isiyaku Ibrahim said he had never nursed an ambition to
hold a political office because he cannot take rubbish from
people, but can promote individuals in politics to be
anything.
He also went down memory lane, saying General Gowon was
toppled as Head of state because he never fulfilled his
promises.
He said he and one Chief Amachree were the first Nigerians
to own private jets, and disclosed how he became a wealthy
businessman through his foreign connection and a contract
from the Nigerian Air Force.
