People Pleaded With My Dad’s Sons To Give Us Something To Start Living, They Refused – Zainab Bayero
Zainab Jummai Addo Bayero, the daughter of the late Emir of Kano, has reacted to the claim that she squandered the money that the Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, gave to her family.
Speaking during an interview with Daily Trust on Monday, she said that she was abandoned by her siblings following the death of their father, and that she and her brother were not given a share of their father’s property.
She said that after her father’s death, several people stepped in and begged her siblings to give them some of their father’s inheritance, but they refused.
She said, “Different people pleaded with my father’s sons to give us something to start living – to buy us a home, to get us back to school, to give us something to do business – but they refused. That is why we are going to our father’s friends, people to help us.
“The same people will go back to my father’s family and inquire what is going on. Is this true? And at the same time, if they inquire from them, they will shut down, they won’t help us. I don’t know why.”
It should be recalled that in June, Zainab had come out to the public to solicit for assistance, saying that she, her mother, and her brother were about to be thrown out of the apartment they were staying in Lagos…..Continue Reading
