A former deputy Senate President and former Plateau Central Senator Ibrahim Mantu have given up the ghost about 2 am Tuesday at the Diff hospital in the nation's capital after nine days of sickness and isolation.
Late Mantu who began his political career with the defunct National Party of Nigeria hailed from Gindiri, in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State was born 16th February 1947 and will be buried at 2 pm today
During the aborted Third Republic, he vied for the Chairmanship of the National Republican Convention (NRC), one of the two registered political parties. During the Late General Sani Abacha transition program, Mantu was a chieftain of the United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP).
In the build-up to the present democratic dispensation, Mantu joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on which platform he won election to represent Plateau Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly in 1999. He served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information before emerging as the Deputy Senate President in 2001.
