Isyaku Ibrahim is a Kano

Kano

Kano is a city in Nigeria and the capital of Kano State in Northern Nigeria. Its metropolitan population is the second largest in Nigeria after Lagos. The Kano Urban area covers 137 sq.km and comprises six Local Government Area - Kano Municipal, Fagge, Dala, Gwale, Tarauni and Nassarawa - with a...

-based Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n politician and businessman. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ruling People's Democratic Party

People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party is a political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the right wing of the political spectrum. It has won every single Presidential elections since 1999, namely: 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011, and is the dominant party in the Fourth Republic.-History:In...

 (PDP) and is President of the Nigeria Universities Games Association (NUGA).

Biography

Ibrahim was a member of Nigeria's parliament in the early 1960s, before the nation's first military coup.

Ibrahim was a founding member of the PDP, and remains on its Board of Trustees. He initially backed Alex Ekwueme for the PDP presidential nomination in the 1999 elections, but Ekweume lost out to Olusegun Obasanjo. Ibrahim switched to supporting Obasanjo, who won the nomination and election. However, he has since criticized Obasanjo for showing "no respect for the rule of law", and said that although Umaru Yar'Adua has taken over as President, Obasanjo is still "the de facto ruler of Nigeria".

He also criticized the former Speaker of the House of Representatives

Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Federal House of Representatives of Nigeria. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the current speaker, was elected on June 6, 2011.-History:...

, fellow PDP member Patricia Etteh

Patricia Etteh

Patricia Olubunmi Foluke Etteh was the Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives from June until October 2007.-Personal life and education:Etteh, a Yoruba, was born on 17 August 1953...

, diverging from his party's official policy of supporting her amidst corruption allegations.