Waziri Kolo Ibrahim Ya kasan ce dan kasuwar Kanuri ne daga Jihar Barno, Najeriya, kuma wanda ya zama fitaccen dan siyasa kuma shugaban jam’iyya a lokacin Jamhuriya ta Biyu ta Najeriya. Yana daya daga cikin wadanda suka assasa kuma suka ba da kudi ga Jam’iyyar Jama’ar Nijeriya, amma a shekarar ta 1978 ya fice daga jam’iyyar ya kafa Babbar Jam’iyyar Jama’ar Nijeriya (GNPP). A matsayin dan takarar jam'iyyar GNPP, ya samu kusan kashi 10% na kuri'un kasar a zaben shugaban kasar Najeriya na shekara ta 1979. An haifi Ibrahim a ranar 26 ga Fabrairu, shekara ta 1926 a Yerwa, Maiduguri. Mahaifinsa, Baba Alhaji Ibrahim Ibn Mohammed malamin addinin Musulunci ne; ya sanyawa sabuwar haihuwar sunan wani aboki wanda a lokacin shine Wazirin Borno. Yaron farko na Waziri yana Damaturu inda mahaifinsa ya kasance Limamin wani masallacin garin. Ya halarci makarantar Elementary ta Damaturu (1936-1939), sannan ya yi karatu a makarantar Midil ta Maiduguri (1940-1943) sannan ya halarci kwalejin Kaduna, 1944-1947.