{"id":73426,"date":"2025-08-17T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73426"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:15:15","slug":"tinubu-mourns-elder-statesman-isyaku-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/17\/tinubu-mourns-elder-statesman-isyaku-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Mourns Elder Statesman Isyaku Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has condoled with the family, associates, and people of Nasarawa State over the death of elder statesman, Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim, who passed away on Saturday in Abuja at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President described Ibrahim as a distinguished businessman, politician, and sports promoter.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Wamba, Nasarawa State, Ibrahim was a prominent chieftain of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) during the Second Republic and later a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu highlighted Ibrahim\u2019s immense contributions to Nigeria\u2019s political and economic development and his role in sports promotion, notably as founder of the Jos-based Mighty Jets Football Club.<\/p>\n<p>The President prayed for the peaceful repose of the elder statesman\u2019s soul and comfort for his family, while extending condolences to the government and people of Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo President Bola Tinubu has condoled with the family, associates, and people of Nasarawa State over the death of elder statesman, Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim, who passed away on Saturday in Abuja at the age of 88. In a statement on Sunday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73428,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426\/revisions\/73428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}