Waziri Ibrahim

Alhadji Waziri Ibrahim was a wealthy Kanuri businessman from Borno State, Nigeria who became a prominent politician and party leader during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was one of the original founders and financiers of the Nigerian People's Party but later left the party to form the Greater Nigerian People's Party (GNPP) in 1978. As leader of the GNPP he won approximately 10% of the vote in the 1979 Nigerian presidential elections.^[1]

References

^ Election Results Archive, Center on Democratic Performance, State University of New York Binghamton. Political Handbook of the World 1980, Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications, 1980.

Ben Lawrence. Revisiting Nigeria's Political History. Niger Delta Congress, March 2002.
Paul Mamza. [Nigeria’s unsung heroes (7): POLITICS WITHOUT BITTERNESS: CAPTURING THE MESSAGE OF ALHAJI WAZIRI IBRAHIM]. Kwenu! Monday, October 10, 2005.
Helen Chapin Metz, ed. THE SECOND REPUBLIC, 1979-83. Nigeria: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1991
Shehu Shagari, Beckoned to Serve
Ngozi Anyaegbunam. Waziri Ibrahim: Politics without bitterness. Daily Times of Nigeria Publishers (1992) ISBN 9789782171009

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Name	Ibrahim, Waziri
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Short description	Nigerian businessman and founder of the Nigerian People's Party and Greater Nigerian People's Party
Date of birth
Place of birth	Borno State, Nigeria
Date of death
Place of death