Sanata Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu (16 February 1947 – 17 August 2021) was a Nigerian politician who served as the

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from 2003 to 2007.

Early life and education

Mantu was born in Chanso village,

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District, Pyemland in the Northern Region of

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(now in

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, Plateau State, Nigeria). Mr. Mantu holds a B.A. (Hons.) degree in

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from the

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. He was awarded Honourary Doctorate Degrees of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi,

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, Madonna University, Okija and University of Applied Sciences and Management Port Novo, Benin Republic.

Career

Sales career

Ibrahim Mantu worked with the

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(PWD) Jos, as a stores requisition clerk from 1962 to 1963 before proceeding to the Gindiri Teachers College in 1964. He left Gindiri in 1967 and joined the

Nigerian Tobacco Company Nigerian Tobacco Company was a cigarette manufacturing, distribution and marketing company that was owned by the Nigerian government and British American Tobacco. The company operated factories in Ibadan, muchia Zaria in kaduna and Port Harcourt. ...

, Zaria the following year as a quality controller. He moved to BEAM, a division of UAC Nigeria as a Kalamazoo specialist salesman in 1971.

Political career

Mantu first joined politics in 1998 and two years later was elected as a Deputy State Chairman of the

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in Plateau State. In 1993, he became Director General of the

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Presidential Campaign Organisation. In 1998, he was elected as the National Publicity Secretary of the

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(now defunct) and was later elected

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on the platform of the same party. A year later, Ibrahim Mantu was re-elected as senator representing Plateau Central senatorial district on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. He then served as

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from 2003 to 2007 and was a member of the

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from 1999 till 2007.

Death

Mantu died from

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in August 2021. He was laid to rest on 17 August 2021 at the Sheikh Khalid Mosque in Abuja.

References

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