-Set To Replace David Mark
Ibrahim Mantu! Remember him? He was in the forefront of the aborted Third term bid of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Deputy Senate President , DSP, during the Third Republic. Mantu was very close to achieving what he painstakingly routed for but his efforts was frustrated by the progressives . Not satisfied with the development, he formed a splinter Northern Elders group and championed the cause to perpetuate the late President Yar'Adua in office when it was obvious the late President was terribly sick.
Senator Mantu, in a bid to curry favour from the late President YarAdua's family, got the who- is-who in the country and took the phony propaganda that the terribly ailing Commander- in - Chief was fit and proper to resume as the nation's number one citizen.
Under the banner of his unpopular Northern Elders Forum , Mantu collected several millions of Naira from the sister of the ailing President to organize a World press conference. He actually did at the Shehu Musa Yaradua centre Abuja in 2008 where he warned Nigerians, particularly Northerners not to permit Jonathan who was then the Vice President, VP ,to the late Yaradua to assume office .
Although most Nigerians forgot the ignoble role Senator Mantu played while he was DSP,his constituents did not. They paid him in the hard way as a relatively unknown local politician was allowed to dismantle him. He failed losing his deposit.
Human memory fails. It surprised many Nigerians when Mantu started warming himself back into the inner recesses of the President's heart through his PDP Reloaded forum . And that started his rehabilitation by the Jonathan's administration , having learnt that the former DSP was allegedly defrauded of over one billion. The first step in repackaging a dismantled Mantu ,it was gathered, was his nomination to the National Conference by the Federal Government. Sources close to the Benson& Hedges heavy smoker revealed that he is warming up to replace former governor Joshua Dariye in the Senate. He allegedly told his campaign manager that President Jonathan has assured him of the Senate Presidency , as he wants somebody he can trust for the job in the last phase of his tour of duty in Aso Rock.
Ibrahim Mantu! Remember him? He was in the forefront of the aborted Third term bid of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Deputy Senate President , DSP, during the Third Republic. Mantu was very close to achieving what he painstakingly routed for but his efforts was frustrated by the progressives . Not satisfied with the development, he formed a splinter Northern Elders group and championed the cause to perpetuate the late President Yar'Adua in office when it was obvious the late President was terribly sick.
Senator Mantu, in a bid to curry favour from the late President YarAdua's family, got the who- is-who in the country and took the phony propaganda that the terribly ailing Commander- in - Chief was fit and proper to resume as the nation's number one citizen.
Under the banner of his unpopular Northern Elders Forum , Mantu collected several millions of Naira from the sister of the ailing President to organize a World press conference. He actually did at the Shehu Musa Yaradua centre Abuja in 2008 where he warned Nigerians, particularly Northerners not to permit Jonathan who was then the Vice President, VP ,to the late Yaradua to assume office .
Although most Nigerians forgot the ignoble role Senator Mantu played while he was DSP,his constituents did not. They paid him in the hard way as a relatively unknown local politician was allowed to dismantle him. He failed losing his deposit.
Human memory fails. It surprised many Nigerians when Mantu started warming himself back into the inner recesses of the President's heart through his PDP Reloaded forum . And that started his rehabilitation by the Jonathan's administration , having learnt that the former DSP was allegedly defrauded of over one billion. The first step in repackaging a dismantled Mantu ,it was gathered, was his nomination to the National Conference by the Federal Government. Sources close to the Benson& Hedges heavy smoker revealed that he is warming up to replace former governor Joshua Dariye in the Senate. He allegedly told his campaign manager that President Jonathan has assured him of the Senate Presidency , as he wants somebody he can trust for the job in the last phase of his tour of duty in Aso Rock.
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