Ibrahim Mantu, Ex-Deputy Senate President Is Dead
Ibrahim Mantu, the former deputy president of the senate, is dead.
Mantu reportedly died in the early hours of Tuesday.
He is said to have been sick for days and died in isolation at a private hospital in the federal capital territory (FCT).
The former lawmaker is expected to be laid to rest later today in Abuja.
Mantu was elected as the senator representing Plateau central on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1999.
He was elected deputy president of the senate in August 2001.
Mantu was born on Februay 16, 1947.
In his autobiography released in 2020, Orji Kalu, former Abia governor, noted that Mantu was the true hero in the efforts to stop the third term agenda of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2006.
According to Kalu, “Mantu was the one who scuttled the third term, and in doing so, he incurred Obasanjo’s eternal hatred. So Nigerians should celebrate him”.
