Re: Yakubu Mohammed: Best of New Nigerian’s ‘Young Turks’

Thanks for publishing my rather longish tribute to Yakubu Mohammed. However, my attention has since been drawn to one serious factual error in the article. I said in the sixth paragraph of the tribute that two of the three graduates who joined myself and Yakubu at the New Nigerian in 1976, namely Rufa’i Ibrahim and Sule Iyaji, were no longer alive. Yesterday my attention was drawn to the fact that Iyaji is alive and well. Indeed, I spoke with him Today after I got his phone number from Professor Sam Egwu, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner for Benue State, who first drew my attention to the error. Not only did Iyaji confirm that he is well and alive, he reminded me that after his stint at Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria as its spokesman, he ventured into politics where he eventually rose to be the Deputy Governor of Benue State when his Igala ethnic group was the second largest in the State after the Tivs. This was before the Igalas were carved into Kogi State. I have since apologized to Iyaji for pronouncing him dead when he was still alive and well. However, obviously I needed to apologize to him and his family in public. Hence, this letter.

Mohammed Haruna, Abuja

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