Ibrahim Ibrahim
Ibrahim Ibrahim is a Nigerian politician from Osun. They have contested 1 election (1 loss) across 1 party. Most recent: 2023 House of Representative Elections as Labour Party (LP) candidate.
Biography
Abu Ibrahim is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Katsina South (Funtua) Senatorial district in April 2003 on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform, serving for one term until May 2007.
He was re-elected to the same seat in April 2011.
Ibrahim previously worked in the federal civil service before joining politics.
Life
Ibrahim earned his school leaving certificate from Government College, Keffi. He graduated from Ahmadu Bello University and then joined the Kaduna State civil service. He was posted to the governor's office as an assistant secretary. He spent considerable years as a civil servant in the governor's office and intermittently traveled abroad to earn a diploma in economic planning and a master's degree in economics. In the late 1970s, he was transferred to the newly created state housing corporation, an outfit he championed while working at the governor's office as a means the government could use to reduce some social-economic problems such as housing. In 1979, when the Federal Capital Development Authority moved its offices from Lagos to Suleja, Ibrahim was posted as Director of Administration of FCDA.
Political career
Ibrahim was a senator during the Third Nigerian Republic. After the truncation of the republic, he went back to his private life. However, he belonged to some organizations that were opposed to the self succession bid of Sani Abacha.
During the Fourth Nigerian republic, Ibrahim was chairman of the Katsina branch of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) for some months. He resigned from this position at the 2002 National Convention of the party after unsubstantiated allegations were made against him. Ibrahim was elected Senator for the Katsina South (Funtua) Senatorial district in April 2003 on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform. In August 2006, he was expelled from the ANPP, as was former President Muhammadu Buhari, also from Katsina. Both were accused of anti-party activities and disregard for the party constitution.
In April 2007, Ibrahim competed unsuccessfully for Governor of Katsina State.
In February 2010, he followed the lead of Muhammadu Buhari in resigning from the ANPP. He competed in the April 2011 elections to become Senator for Katsina South (Funtua) on the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) platform. He received 324,652 votes, defeating the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Tukur Ahmed Jikamshi, who trailed with 198,927. Jikamshi was formerly deputy governor of the state.
Ibrahim was involved in merger negotiations between CPC and Action Congress and was an intermediary between Bola Tinubu of AC and Buhari of CPC. The negotiations fell through at the time, only to re-emerge prior to the 2015 elections.
Ibrahim became deputy minority chief whip of the senate between 2011 and 2015. He introduced a citizens' rights bill that allowed residents who have domiciled in a location for more than twenty years to be recognized as indigenes of the community.
In 2015, he was returned to the senate under the All Progressive Congress, a merger of AC, CPC and some politicians from PDP.
Political Career
Party Positions
Policy positions from the Labour Party (LP) party manifesto.
Agriculture
Will optimize agricultural value chains across all 36 states with targeted investments, addressing impediments like banditry, kidnapping, and desertification to enhance food security and advance agro-based industrialization.
Governance & Reform
Will restructure the Nigerian federation through legal and institutional reforms to strengthen federalism by moving agreed items from the exclusive list of the Federal government to the concurrent list, ensuring effective public action for growth and sustainable livelihood.
Security & Defense
Will implement key recommendations from previous police and security sector reform reports, including a three-level policing structure (local, state, federal) with detailed guidelines to curb abuses.
Reliefs and scholarships
Will resolve the national minimum wage problem by replacing the extant salary structure with an hourly productivity-based national minimum wage, ensuring binding application across all sectors.
Economy & Trade
Will reform the transport system, including logistics, ports, customs, and other agencies, to create an integrated transport system promoting inter-connectivity among ports, roads, rail, and inland waterways to reduce trade costs and enhance competitiveness.
Enterprise grant support
Will devise programs to reskill youths, create mandatory national certification for blue-collar artisans, strengthen STEM tertiary schools, and establish a venture capital-like fund for young entrepreneurs.
Environment & Climate
Will establish a Green Army to tap into $3 trillion in international climate finance for green growth, employment, and transition to a green economy.
Anti-corruption
Will establish the Office of Special Counsel to investigate and prosecute executive abuses of power and corruption, with constitutional amendments to exempt its prosecutions from the Nolle Prosequi power of the Attorney General.
Energy
Launch a solar power revolution in Northern Nigeria, ensuring uninterrupted power supply in cities and industrial parks by the end of 2024 through re-engagement of 14 Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and resolving financial impediments to reach $2.5 billion in PPAs for 1,125 MW of solar capacity.
Technology & Digital
Support private sector-led fiber-optic backbone projects connecting tertiary institutions and state capitals to enable free broadband access for digital transformation.
Infrastructure
Creation of national multi-utility transport tunnels (MUT) to integrate masterplans for gas, road, railway, urban mass transit, telecommunications, water, sewage, and electricity for cost efficiency and streamlined infrastructure development.
Education
Will implement a Marshall Plan-style education reform program with compulsory technical and vocational skills, entrepreneurship, and digital training from primary to secondary level, with strategic partnerships for incubators and seed funding.
Healthcare
Expand health insurance coverage to 133 million poorest Nigerians (including pregnant women, children, the elderly, and disabled) through strengthened NHIS with private sector involvement, ensuring accessibility and affordability.
Foreign Policy
Engage in Afro-centric diplomacy to protect Nigerian citizens abroad and advance economic interests through trade, investment, and diplomatic leverage.
Other Candidates in Osun
Sources
Bio, State of Origin: Wikipedia ↗