{"id":35131,"date":"2021-08-17T12:49:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35131"},"modified":"2021-08-17T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T11:49:04","slug":"oh-no-not-mantu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35131","title":{"rendered":"Oh no! Not Mantu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Tunde Olusunle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is so very painful, a national tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time last week, the North Central Peoples&#8217; Forum, NCPF, chaired by Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni, visited the Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, to brief him about the activities of the body. The NCPF, by the way, is planning a Summit on security, scheduled for September.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was in that team as Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Publicity of the group.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other members of the delegation included Engr Sanni Ndanusa (former Sports Minister); Arc Gabriel Aduku (former Minister of State for Health); Rear Admiral Christopher Ehanmo, rtd, (former Chief of Logistics, Nigerian Navy); Khaleel Bolaji, mni, (Secretary of the NCPF), among others.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Mantu was conspicuously missing from the visiting delegation, first as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Forum and also as a revered leader from the host state, Plateau.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His absence was ascribed to his being excused to attend to personal matters, especially since the elder statesman Senator Useni, a most capable host, is also a distinguished son of Plateau State.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve just lost one of our most colourful politicians, who acquitted himself brilliantly in the polyvalent capacities he served this country.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the sidelines of one of the NCPF&#8217;s meetings, he was discussing the prospects of his biography with me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a big blow to the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25aa\ufe0e <strong>Dr. Olusunle is Chairman of the Publicity Sub-Committee of the North Central Peoples&#8217; Forum, NCPF<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tunde Olusunle This is so very painful, a national tragedy. This time last week, the North Central Peoples&#8217; Forum, NCPF, chaired by Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni, visited the Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, to brief him about the activities of the body. The NCPF, by the way, is planning a Summit on security, scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5781],"tags":[208,3796,2289],"class_list":["post-35131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-obituary","tag-executive","tag-mantu","tag-ncpf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}