Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu

Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu wanda aka fi sani da MD Yusufu  ko kuma  MD Yusuf (10 ga Nuwamban shekarar alif 1931 - 1 ga Afrilu, 2015) ya kasance dan sandan Nijeriya, Sufeto Janar na ’Yan Sandan Najeriya, ma’aikacin gwamnati ne kuma dan siyasa. Yusufu ya samu Ilimi mai zurfi a Cibiyar Gudanarwa, Zariya a 1954 da Jami'ar Oxford inda aka horar da shi a matsayin jami'in gudanarwa.

Aiki da siyasa
Yusufu ya fara aiki a Hukumar 'Yan Asalin Katsina yana aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Darakta a Lardin Ilorin daga shekarar 1949 zuwa 1954. Yusufu ya hau kan mukamin Sufeto Janar na ‘yan sandan Najeriya, mukamin da ya rike daga shekarar 1975 zuwa 1979 lokacin mulkin soja na Janar Janar Murtala Mohammed da Olusegun Obasanjo. An naɗa shi shugaban Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) a 1994.
A shekara ta 1998, ya yi rijistar Movement for Democracy and Justice a matsayin jam'iyyar siyasa kuma a 1999 da 2003, ya tsaya takarar dan takarar shugaban kasa a karkashinta. A zaben kananan hukumomi na watan Disambar 1998, jam’iyyar ta zo ta hudu kuma ta lashe kujerun kansiloli 83 a Jihohi 21 na Tarayya da Shugabancin Warri a Jihar Delta, Hadejia a Jihar Jigawa da Bama a Borno.

Yusufu ya kasance shugaban LNG na Najeriya a 1994, lokacin da wata kungiya karkashin jagorancin Halliburton reshen KBR ke neman kwangilar gina wata hanyar fitarwa ta LNG a gasar tare da kamfanin Amurka Bechtel . A cikin wasikar da ya aika wa Yusufu a watan Satumban shekarar 1994, ministan mai Don Etiebet ya ce kwamitin NLNG "ya yi matukar damuwa da amincin kwantiragin da ke jiransa". Ya yi la'akari da cewa akwai keta doka game da sirrin kasuwanci, hakan na iya amfanar da hadin gwiwar da KBR ke jagoranta. 
Yayin binciken KBR da ake zargin cin hanci da rashawa, wani mai ba da shawara a Landan, Mista Jeffrey Tesler ya ce ya samu ci gaban Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu a matsayin bashin da zai sake biya.  An bayar da bashin $ 70,000 a lokacin ziyarar da Yusufu ya kai Landan a 1998 ko 1999.  An yi kokarin sanya Mataimakin Shugaban Amurka Dick Cheney cikin badakalar cin hanci da rashawa, wanda ya hada da cin hancin sama da $ 180m a madadin wata kungiyar hadin gwiwa karkashin jagorancin Halliburton. 

Ya shiga Majalisar Kasa ta Najeriya da Kamaru (NCNC) a shekarar 1950, da kuma Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) a 1951, amma ya bar siyasa lokacin da ya shiga hidimar yankin Arewa. A jamhuriya ta biyu bayan ya yi ritaya daga 'yan sanda ya zama memba na Jam'iyyar Redemption Party . Yusufu ya nuna sha’awarsa ta tsayawa takarar Shugaban kasa a karkashin kungiyar Grassroots Democratic Movement a Najeriya a lokacin da ake mika mulki ga dimokuradiyya da Janar Sani Abacha ya kaddamar a 1997 - 1998. Jam'iyyar tana da tsarin hagu na hagu. A shekarar 2000, ya zama shugaban kungiyar Arewa Consultative Forum, wata kungiyar al'adu da siyasa ta Arewa. 

Bayan zaben Afrilun shekarata 2003, dukkansu Muhammadu Buhari na ANPP da Yusufu, wadanda suka yi takarar dan takarar shugaban kasa a karkashin jam’iyyar Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ), sun kalubalanci nasarar zaben na Shugaba Obasanjo.  Koyaya, a watan Yunin 2003, Yusufu, ya ce 'yan takarar da aka kayar da ba su da shirin zuwa kotu ya kamata su yarda da kayen nasu da aminci. 

A watan Nuwamba na shekarar 2003, Yusufu ya ce bayar da mafaka da Shugaba Olusegun Obasanjo ya yi wa hambararren shugaban Liberiya , Charles Taylor ba za a iya kare shi ba a kan adalci ko rashin fahimta, don haka aka tsige shi.

Rasuwa
MD Yusufu ya mutu ne a ranar 1 ga Afrilu, 2015 a Abuja. 

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