Former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, Is Dead

Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, is dead. He died early today (Tuesday) in Abuja.

Sources said he may have died of COVID-19.

Mantu, who hailed from Gindiri, in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, was an influential political figure in Nigeria for several years.

During the aborted third republic, he vied for the Chairmanship of the National Republican Convention, NRC, one of the two registered political parties.

A former Plateau Central Senator and two-time deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu, is dead.

He was elected into the 4th and 5th Senate from 1999 to 2007.

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

The late former deputy Senate President will be buried at 2pm today.