Former Deputy Senate, President Ibrahim Mantu is dead.

Family sources disclosed that Mantu died in a private hospital in Abuja in the early hours of Tuesday after falling ill nine days ago.

He was aged 74 years.

The source said the funeral prayer would hold later on Tuesday at Apo legislative mosque in Abuja.

The late Mantu was born in Chanso village, Gindiri District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State on February 16, 1947. He attended the Gindiri Demonstration Primary School from 1955 – 1961 and obtained the First School Leaving Certificate.

The deceased was elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1999 to represent Plateau Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly.

He gathered political relevance in national politics after emerging as the Deputy Senate President in 1999, a position he held for eight years.

Before his demise, Mantu was a member of the PDP Board of Trustees.

He equally served in many capacities, including the Director-General of the Defunct National Republican Convention, Presidential campaign 1993; National Chairman, defunct Peoples Democratic Alliance, and National Publicity Secretary defunct United Nigeria Congress Party.