A Former Deputy Senate President and Chieftain of PDP, Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu, is dead.
It was gathered that the former Plateau Central Senator died in the early hours of Tuesday.
Early life
Alhaji Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu was born on February 16, 1947, in Plateau State. Mantu is one of the few Nigerians who take politics seriously and had from the onset decided to make it a full-time vocation. Apart from his profession, which he read, at the Professional School of Saksmanship, Lagos and the London University U.K, he was variously at the vanguard of the leadership of most of the political parties of his time.
Mantu was Deputy National Chairman, defunct Liberal Convention, Director-General Defunct National Republican Convention, Presidential campaign 1993; National Chairman, defunct Peoples Democratic Alliance, National Publicity Secretary defunct United Nigeria Congress Party.
He was a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Plateau Central Constitueny) under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and appointed Deputy Senate President, 2000. Alhaji Mantu was also the General Patron of the Nigerian Youth Organisation Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Journalism and General Patron Bida Hall, University of Lagos.