Isyaku Ibrahim, an elder statesman and politician from the Second Republic, has described how the late Queen Elizabeth assisted in preventing the 1984 extradition of Umaru Dikko, a former Transportation Minister, by the General Muhammadu Buhari-led (Rtd) dictatorship.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the Buhari administration is accused of having sanctioned the kidnapping and extraordinary rendition of Dikko, a member of the Shehu Shagari administration that Buhari overthrew, on July 5th, 1984, in what has become known as the “Dikko Affair.”
At Stansted Airport, Dikko, who was traveling to Lagos State with a Jewish doctor, was discovered drugged and imprisoned in a crate.
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In an interview with Newsmen on Saturday in Abuja, Ibrahim expressed his profound sorrow at the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
According to the elder statesman, the late British monarch played a key role in stopping the extradition of Umaru Dikko.
Ibrahim said: “When I was in New York with the present president of Ghana, I was called and the lady was crying. I asked her what happened and she told me that she heard that Umaru Dikko had been kidnapped. I asked if she had spoken to the police and she said no. I told her not to call the police.
“I said I would keep her posted about what I was doing. I then called my business associate with the British Aerospace, who happened to be Major Hamset. He was a colleague of Queen Elizabeth’s security man. Hamset had decided to retire. He didn’t want to continue in the army; he said he wanted to make money. So, when I called him to tell him what happened, he said I should put my telephone down.
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“He quickly called his colleague (the queen’s security man) and told him that they had kidnapped Umaru Dikko. He then went to the queen, saluted, and said, ‘We have a bad news.’ He told the queen that they had kidnapped Dikko. She screamed and said Dikko was her guest. This goes to show you how sharp the queen’s memory was.”
He said the Queen then directed her security man to call Margaret Thatcher (the then British prime minister) and tell her what was happening.
“Can you believe it? Wallahi, within 20 minutes the British airspace, sea, and ground were sealed. The whole of Great Britain was sealed. Then, at about 2 pm or 2:30 pm, Major Hamset called me and said, ‘I have good news for you. Umaru Dikko has been found with a Jewish doctor in a crate.’”
Ibrahim claims that the Jewish doctor was meant to be injecting him up until they boarded the aircraft to transport them to Nigeria.
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According to Anaedoonline.ng, the nation’s figurehead for seven decades and the king with the longest reign in British history passed away on Thursday at the age of 96.
The queen loved Nigeria, according to the wise man, and she will be much missed.
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