Ibrahim Imam
| Ibrahim Imam | |
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| Member of the Northern Nigeria House of Assembly | |
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In office 1951–1959 |
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| Constituency | Yerwa |
| Member of the Northern Nigeria House of Assembly | |
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In office 1961–1965 |
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| Constituency | Tiv |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1916 Yerwa |
| Died | April 1980 (aged 63–64) London |
| Political party | Borno Youth Movement NEPU, NPC |
| Spouse(s) | Fusam Umaram, Hajiya Dije & Hajiya ashe |
| Occupation | Contractor |
Ibrahim Imam (1916 – April 1980) was a Kanuri politician from Borno, Nigeria who was the secretary of the Northern People's Congress and later became a patron of the Borno Youth Movement. He was elected into the Northern House of Assembly in 1961, representing a Tiv district. Prior to his election in 1961, he had represented his district of Yerwa in 1951 after supporting a strike of Native Administration workers.
Imam was a Kanuri man from the Yerwa district of Borno. He was born in 1916 into an family and his half-brother was the district head of Yerwa. He attended Katsina College and after completing his studies joined the Borno Native Administration as an assistant and later became the supervisor of works in 1950.
While working as an engineering assistant for the Borno Native Authority, he entered the political arena as the founder of the Borno Youth Improvement Association in 1949. In 1951, he contested and won a seat to the House of Assembly defeating the Waziri Mohammed. A year later at the inception of the Northern People's Congress, which later became the dominant party in the region, he was nominated as the party's secretary-general; he joined a large number of his colleagues from the regional house who enlisted on the political platform of the new NPC. As the general secretary of NPC, he became one of the party's prominent campaigners and was involved in political tours, traveling for thousands of miles while providing support for the extension of the party through the establishment of branches in various towns and cities in the region.
After leaving the Native Authority, he became a building contractor to supplement his income as an honourable member of the House.
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