Prominent business tycoon and politician, Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim, is dead.

He died in the early hours of Saturday at a private hospital in Abuja.

He was aged 88.

The late Ibrahim was one of the founding leaders of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and close associate of Second Republic Nigerian President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari. He nominated Shehu Shagari as the NPN presidential flagbearer, as leader of the Plateau delegates.

He was one of the founding fathers and financier of the Peoples Democratic Party, and was the campaign manager of the late former Vice President Alex Ekwueme, when he vied for the PDP presidential ticket against then President Olusegun Obasanjo at the party’s primaries in 2003.

He was the founder of the Mighty Jets Football club of Jos in the 70s and the first Nigerian to hire a foreign coach from Brazil to manage the club.

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