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  • Ex-Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu buried in Abuja

    Ex-Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu buried in Abuja

    The former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, who died in the early hours of Tuesday, has been buried in Abuja.

    He was aged 74 years.

    Family members, friends and political associates had converged at the Sheikh Khalid mosque in the nation’s capital, where prayers were held for the deceased.

    Dignitaries who attended the prayer session include the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso among others.

    The interment was held at the Gudu cemetery also in Abuja.

    Prior to his demise in a private hospital, sources close to the family said Senator Mantu fell ill nine days ago and was being treated at home and thereafter rushed to the hospital when his condition did not improve.

    Mantu was elected deputy senate president in 2001 under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), a position he held till 2007 when he did not return to the Senate.

    Earlier, President Muhammadu Buhari and Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, had mourned the late senator, lauding his contributions to national development.

    Buhari in a statement issued by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the late Bantu dedicated his life to the service of his people.

    He commiserated with the leaders, members of the National Assembly, friends, political associates, and the Plateau State Government.

    Governor Lalong on his part described Mantu’s death as a great loss to the state and Nigeria at large.

    Lalong said he received the news of the demise of the elder statesman and erudite politician with a heavy heart, recalling his enormous contributions to the socio-political development of the State and the nation at large.

    “Late Senator Nasiru Mantu was a grassroots politician whose life was all about the interest of the people as he did everything within his power to serve them through empowerment and quality representation,” the governor was quoted as saying in a statement issued by his spokesman, Makut Simon Macham.

    “He earned his place in Nigerian politics by active involvement and also had a great connection with the youth whom he mentored not only in politics but in other fields, especially service to humanity.”

  • UPDATED: How Ex-Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu died

    UPDATED: How Ex-Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu died

    Former Deputy Senate President and Plateau Central Senator, Ibrahim Mantu is Dead.

    He died early Tuesday morning.

    According to a report by Daily Trust, the ex-lawmaker died at a private hospital in Abuja.

    He was said to have been ill for nine days and died at about 2am on Tuesday.

    “He fell ill about nine days ago and was receiving treatment at home but he was rushed to the hospital when there was no sign of improvement,” a source told Daily Trust.

    The ex-lawmaker’s funeral prayer would hold later on Tuesday (today), in Abuja.

    Mantu was elected Deputy Senate President under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in 2001.

    Profile

    Senator Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu was born in Chanso village, Gindiri District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State on February 16, 1947. He attended the Gindiri Demonstration Primary School from 1955 – 1961 and obtained the First School Leaving Certificate.

    He worked with the Public Works Department (PWD) Jos, as a Stores Requisition Clerk from 1962 – 1963 before proceeding to the Gindiri Teachers College in 1964. On leaving Gindiri in 1967, he joined the Nigerian Tobacco Company Zaria in 1968 as a Quality Checker. He moved to BEAM, a Division of UAC Nigeria as a Kalamazoo Specialist Salesman in 1971.

    Mantu studied on his own to obtain O’ level GCE and Diploma in Professional Salesmanship which facilitated his movement to John Holt Ltd. in 1973 as a Trainee-Manager. He was later confirmed as a substantive Manager. In 1976 Mantu became the General Manager of John Holt Ltd. Maiduguri Venture. In 1977 he was promoted and transferred to Lagos as Deputy General Manager, Building Materials Division, John Holt Ltd. He resigned in mid 1977 to join Plateau State Supply Company Ltd. as its first Commercial Manager.

    Mantu holds a B.A. (Hons.) degree in Political Science from the Washington International University. He was awarded Honourary Doctorate Degrees of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, University of Jos, Madonna University, Okija and University of Applied Sciences and Management Port Novo, Benin Republic.
    Senator Mantu joined politics in 1978. He was elected Deputy State Chairman of NPN in Plateau State in 1980.

    He was a founding member of the Liberal Convention. Mantu’s overwhelming popularity saw him contesting the National Chairmanship of the N.R.C. in 1990 but was edged out in a surreptitious power play. In 1993, Mantu was the Director General of National Republican Convention Presidential Campaign Organisation. In 1998, he was elected the National Publicity Secretary of the defunct UNCP and was later elected Senator on the platform of the same party.

    The election was truncated by General Abdusalam Abubakar’s regime. In 1999, Mantu was re-elected in a fresh contest as Senator representing Plateau Central Senatorial district on the platform of the PDP.

  • BREAKING: Ex-Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu is dead

    BREAKING: Ex-Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu is dead

    Former Deputy Senate President and Plateau Central Senator, Ibrahim Mantu is Dead.

    He died early Tuesday morning.

    Senator Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu was born in Chanso village, Gindiri District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State on February 16, 1947. He attended the Gindiri Demonstration Primary School from 1955 – 1961 and obtained the First School Leaving Certificate.

    He worked with the Public Works Department (PWD) Jos, as a Stores Requisition Clerk from 1962 – 1963 before proceeding to the Gindiri Teachers College in 1964. On leaving Gindiri in 1967, he joined the Nigerian Tobacco Company Zaria in 1968 as a Quality Checker. He moved to BEAM, a Division of UAC Nigeria as a Kalamazoo Specialist Salesman in 1971.

    Mantu studied on his own to obtain O’ level GCE and Diploma in Professional Salesmanship which facilitated his movement to John Holt Ltd. in 1973 as a Trainee-Manager. He was later confirmed as a substantive Manager. In 1976 Mantu became the General Manager of John Holt Ltd. Maiduguri Venture. In 1977 he was promoted and transferred to Lagos as Deputy General Manager, Building Materials Division, John Holt Ltd. He resigned in mid 1977 to join Plateau State Supply Company Ltd. as its first Commercial Manager.

    Mantu holds a B.A. (Hons.) degree in Political Science from the Washington International University. He was awarded Honourary Doctorate Degrees of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, University of Jos, Madonna University, Okija and University of Applied Sciences and Management Port Novo, Benin Republic.

    Senator Mantu joined politics in 1978. He was elected Deputy State Chairman of NPN in Plateau State in 1980.

    He was a founding member of the Liberal Convention. Mantu’s overwhelming popularity saw him contesting the National Chairmanship of the N.R.C. in 1990 but was edged out in a surreptitious power play. In 1993, Mantu was the Director General of National Republican Convention Presidential Campaign Organisation. In 1998, he was elected the National Publicity Secretary of the defunct UNCP and was later elected Senator on the platform of the same party.

    The election was truncated by General Abdusalam Abubakar’s regime. In 1999, Mantu was re-elected in a fresh contest as Senator representing Plateau Central Senatorial district on the platform of the PDP.

  • PDP truly shortchanged Nigerians, we need to seek genuine forgiveness – Mantu

    Former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu has said the former ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) truly shortchanged Nigerians for the sixteen years it held sway as the ruling party.

    The former Deputy Senate President who was speaking on a Channels’ Television programme ‘Hard Copy’ on Friday night also confessed to how he he helped his party win elections in the past through bribery and corruption.

    “I don’t have to go and change election (results) but when you provide money, you give money to INEC boys that if they see any chance they should favour you, you provide money to the security (personnel).

    “I tell you it’s not necessarily when I am contesting election but when my party sponsors a candidate, I will like that candidate to win election.”

    Mantu who represented Plateau State in the Senate between 1999 and 2007 pronounced himself a born again politician in 2017.

    He was elected on the platform of the PDP.

    He agreed ‘wholeheartedly’ with PDP national chairman,Prince Uche Secundus,on the recent public apology he tendered on the party’s mistakes when it was in power between 1999 and 2015.

    He said:”We have failed the people through the ways and politics. It is time for us to ensure that we do not allow the wrong people to lead the people and the nation.

    “ As politicians, we have committed sins against the people, by encouraging the things that we should not have encouraged.

    “God has totally blessed our country Nigeria with abundant human and natural resources but we have failed to utilize these to improve the quality of lives of the people.”

    Asked why he thought Secundus’ apology was in order, Mantu said: “there is the need for Nigerian politicians to apologize for all the sins we have committed against the people.

    “That is because we have shortchanged the people.”

    He recalled, how in the PDP, names of candidates who won elections were deleted and replaced with other names.

    “Winners names were crossed out and replaced with names of those who did not win. It is bad because we imposed those who did not win on the people,” he said.

    “It is true that we (PDP) ruled with impunity.”

    He asked other PDP members to also become “born again, remorse and repentant.

    “ We must meet the expectations of the people. It is not about changing from one party to another. It is about changing our heart. It is about changing our attitudes. Let us sit down and reflect on the bad leadership that we have given to Nigerians these past years and change. Nigeria is supposed to lead Africa but we have failed.”