MEET THE POWERFUL LADY WHO MARRIED TWO CLOSE FRIENDS, DANGOTE &
BAUCHI GOVERNOR
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote is like rich kids in dad’s
car doing anything for kicks in all matters of the heart, particularly dating.
Before the business fueled tear-up between him and the CEO of
Forte Oil, Femi Otedola, whispered hints suggested that they knowingly dated
the same woman, who they described in idle chatter as Chanchangi.
The lady was nicknamed after Chanchangi airlines after likened to
her bedroom antics to that of the airline’s aircrafts while in flight.
If that was man-talk,
what was serious was that the Forbes 23rd richest person in the world, and
Bauchi State governor, Mallam Issa Yuguda are close friends and business
associates and at one time or the other married the same woman.
Mallam Yuguda was the MD/CEO of Inland Bank (now part of FCMB)
and also headed NAL Merchant Bank (now part of Sterling Bank).
Yuguda has one of d biggest cargoes in the coast of Guinea. In
his asset declaration form he submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau in 2007,
the then newly elected governor’s worth totaled about N48billion.
He has increased the shipping line to about 30 carriers
including between six to nine yachts. His company handles ship transport for
the Dangote Group.
Yuguda’s recent attempts to grant his bosom friend a thousand
hectare of land at the Kafin Zaki Dam for commercial sugarcane farming was
frustrated by other north-east governors whose states equally have claim to the
river.
Impeccable source told usthat Yuguda’s third wife, Hajia Mariya
was once Dangote’s wife.
Daughter of second republic senator, Alhaji A.D Rufai, Hajia
Mariya’s first marriage was to former GM of Arewa Hotel, Alh. Lele Muktar in
1985. Their relationship was torn apart beyond repair within two years, and she
later married Dangote between 1998-2000.
Once a commissioner for women affairs in Bauchi State and
presently a director in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Hajia Mariya became
Yuguda’s wife when he was Minister of State for Transport.
Blessed with three children, Muslim, Amir and Amal (pictured
below) scandal rocked their marriage to its sturdy foundation in 2010. She was
accused of having an affair with Yuguda’s former Special Adviser on
Communications, Abdullahi Murtala Magas.
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