A former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu, is dead. The Plateauborn politician was reported to have passed away at the Diff hospital in Abuja, in the early hours of Tuesday.
A family source stated that Mantu had been sick for nine days and kept in isolation.
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He reportedly fell ill about nine days ago and was receiving treatment at home and he was rushed to the hospital when there was no sign of improvement.
Ibrahim Mantu was a member of the Senate, he emerged as Deputy President of the red chamber from 2001 to 2007 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
