Waziri Ibrahim

Alhadji Waziri Kolo Ibrahim (26 February 1926 – 1992) was a Kanuri business man from Borno State, Nigeria, who became a prominent politician and party leader during the Nigerian Second Republic.

His father, Baba Alhaji Ibrahim Ibn Mohammed was an Islamic scholar; he named the new born boy after a friend who was then Waziri of Borno.

At Kaduna College, he was a classmate of Professor Umaru Shehu; before completing his studies, it was the desire of the then Chief Education Officer of Borno, Kashim Ibrahim that Waziri should enter the teaching service after graduation.

The controversy generated by the head count led the cancellation of the census results and official figures were never publicly acknowledged.

Waziri established a group of companies under the corporate name Herwa which included a tin mining venture in Jos and a soap and flour mill in Maiduguri.

Leaders of Club 19 and Council for National Unity opposed Ibrahim's ambition of becoming both the party's chairman and its presidential candidate.

Waziri's first marriage was to a Shuwa Arab woman, Fatime; he later married two other wives, the last being Fatimah, daughter of Kashim Ibrahim.