IBRU WIDOW DRAGS IN LAW TO COURT OVER HUSBAND’S PROPERTY

THE CRACK IN THE IBRU FAMILY

IBRU WIDOW DRAGS IN LAW TO COURT OVER HUSBAND’S PROPERTY

Contrary to the general believe that the Ibru family is a well knitted family with large entrepreneurial heart, the story you are reading will reveal the hatred and disconnect between the members of the family. Recently the widow, Mrs Maiden Ibru, of the late Alex Uruemu Ibru, publisher of Guardian Newspaper, who died on November 28, 2011, was at the Federal High Court Lagos praying to it to wind up a business concern jointly owned by her late husband and his brother Goodie Ibru. You wonder why she did that. Hear her: “Six months before my husband died, the Doctors told me he was going to die and for five months he was out of circulation, nobody saw him even his family members did not bother about him. Two weeks before he died, he embarked on a hunger strike, when the family members heard about it, some of them came to see him including Mr. Goodie Ibru. When Mr. Goodie came, the deceased said he didn’t expect he would be talking. Then my husband said he was going to fight him to the finish, dead or alive. That even when he dies he will continue the fight unless he, Goodie Ibru, resigns as the Chairman of the company (Tourist Company Nigeria Plc). He said that of all his brothers the last person he thought will betray him is Goodie. They had altered some of the documents, diverted money and committed all sourts of atrocities without the knowledge of my husband.”