Revealed: How Queen Elizabeth Stopped Buhari’s Extradition Of Umaru Dikko

Elder-Statesman, Alhaji Ibrahim Ishaku has disclosed the personal role played by Queen Elizabeth II in aborting the planned forced extradition of Alhaji Umaru Dikko from the United Kingdom by agents of Nigerian Intelligence reportedly working at the behest of General Muhammadu Buhari in 1984.

Ishaku Ibrahim disclosed in an interview with Daily Trust that Dikko was part of President Shehu Shagari entourage on his state visit to Britain in 1981.

According to him, the queen hosted the delegation that included Umaru Dikko to a brunch in Buckingham Palace and had on that occasion interacted with them individually. Even more Dikko was among four other Nigerians that slept in Buckingham Palace with the president.

In the interview with Daily Trust in which he poured tributes on the deceased monarch, he opened up on the secret role he played that involved contact with Queen Elizabeth that aborted the extradition of Umaru Dikko who had become a pain to the Buhari military government from London.

He said:

“When I was in New York with the present president of Ghana, I was called and the lady was crying. I asked her what happened and she told me that she heard that Umaru Dikko had been kidnapped. I asked if she had spoken to the police and she said no. I told her not to call the police.

“I said I would keep her posted about what I was doing. I then called my business associate with the British Aerospace, who happened to be Major Hamset. He was a colleague of Queen Elizabeth’s security man. Hamset had decided to retire. He didn’t want to continue in the army; he said he wanted to make money. So, when I called him to tell him what happened, he said I should put my telephone down.

“He quickly called his colleague (the queen’s security man) and told him that they had kidnapped Umaru Dikko. He then went to the queen, saluted and said, ‘We have a bad news.’ He told the queen that they had kidnapped Dikko. She screamed and said Dikko was her guest. This goes to show you how sharp the queen’s memory was,” he said.

He said the queen then directed her security man to call Margaret Thatcher (the then British prime minister) and tell her what was happening.

“Can you believe it? Wallahi, within 20 minutes the British airspace, sea and ground was sealed. The whole Great Britain was sealed. Then, about 2pm or 2:30pm, Major Hamset called me and said, ‘I have a good news for you. Umaru Dikko has been found with a Jewish doctor in a crate.’”

He said the Jewish doctor was supposed to be injecting him until they put them in the plane for onward delivery to Nigeria..

GWG reports that 37 years after with Buhari back in power as a civilian president that Nigerian Intelligence were, however, more successful in effecting the extradition of another ferocious critic, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, this time from Nairobi, Kenya but it is not known if Queen Elizabeth would have made any connection with that July 1984 incident in her realm.

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