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Malam Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the governor of Sokoto state and former speaker of the house of representatives, has just married a new wife. He got married to Hajia Maryam Mairo Mustapha, an IT expert.
The ELITES exclusively gathered that the first leg of the wedding Fatiha kicked off on Thursday, February 4, 2016, in Kano.
Already, the couple has jet out to Saudi Arabia to perform Lesser Hajj. They are expected to be back in the coming week. Checks made by The ELITES revealed that the wedding invitations sent out by the couple to close friends and associates indicate that the wedding Fatiha proper comes up between February 19 and 21, in Kano, Abuja and Sokoto.
Tambuwal and his new wife met a few years ago, during the period he served as a Speaker of the House of Representatives. He proposed to her shortly before he contested for the Sokoto State gubernatorial election. However, their plan to marry was deliberately delayed until Tambuwal left office as Speaker of the House of Representatives. But as fate would have it, he got another office, a situation that ultimately defeated his aversion to publicity and pomp and pageantry inherent in political office holders’ marriage.
Contrary to reports that the couple had a “secret marriage”, The ELITES gathered that all the mandatory rites provided by Islam were fulfilled. The Chief Imam of Kano, Professor Sani Zahraddeen, officiated the marriage at the residence of her guardian, Lawal Mukhtar, a dowry was paid and family members, relatives and friends witnessed it.
Tambuwal’s new wife, Mairo, is a native of Kano City, Kano State. Her father, the late Malam Mustapha Balarabe was a political gladiator, and a member of the House of Representatives (1979-1983) during the Second Republic. Mallam Balarabe was a close associate and a highly educated disciple of the late Malam Aminu Kano. Among the Members of the House of Representatives from Kano in those days, late Mustapha Balarabe and Sidi H. Ali were the only ones who remained loyal to Malam Aminu Kano.
At a point, Malam Aminu Kano considered him for the governorship ticket of PRP in 1982, but the permutation changed when Sabo Bakinzuwo, a senator then, picked the ticket. He was later appointed the commissioner of finance in the Sabo Bakinzuwo administration in 1983. He died in 1986.
Mustapha’s mother, who passed on in February 2011, was a half-Sierra-Leonian and half Nigerian. She is the third of her parents four children.
Mustapha is the niece of Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, the 14th Chief Justice of Nigeria, and the first Nigerian woman to attain such position.
Well-educated, unassuming, kind and accomplished woman, Mustapha garnered years of work experience in telecoms, oil and gas, IT, and energy sectors. She has an insatiable appetite for acquiring knowledge on every issue of life.
Fondly called M-Black or MMB by her close friends, Mustapha attended Federal Government Girls College, Kazaure and Bayero university, Kano. She has attended various courses in management and business, at London Business School, Lagos Business School, Harvard University, Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania, and some other top class universities in South Africa, France, Malaysia and some other countries.
After working in the private sector for many years, Mustapha set up Oracle Integrated Service, OIS, Limited, an IT strategy, planning and business firm in 2006. The company organised the first Nigeria’s Presidential Campaign Poll in 2007.
Described by her friends as an extremely intelligent, humane and humble lady, Mustapha was also a volunteer for Buhari Support Organisations during the 2015 electioneering. Known to be a very good cook, Mustapha enjoys reading, dancing and traveling. She is a great music buff and she is particularly fond of listening to King Sunny Ade’s music.
-The ELITES
