Ibrahim Kuta’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Nigerian politician
Was Politician
From Nigeria
Type Politics
Gender male
Birth

1 October 1942, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria

Death

1 March 2008
(aged 65 years)

Politics People’s Democratic Party

Idris Ibrahim Kuta (1942–2008) was elected Senator for the Niger East constituency of Niger State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.

Kuta was born on 1 October 1942 in Minna, Niger State. He qualified as a Quantity Surveyor and worked in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He served as Commissioner of Health and Commissioner of Commerce in Niger State from 1976. He was Secretary and also two-time chairman of the Nigeria Polo Association, and mounted and sponsored the dominant Kaduna Stable polo team. Kuta was deputy speaker of the House of Representatives in the Nigerian Second Republic from 1979 to 1983. He served briefly as Minister for Mines and Steel in 1983.

He also served as a Senator in Nigerian Third Republic on the platform of the National Republican Convention until 1993. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 he was appointed to committees on Rules & Procedures, Aviation (Committee Chairman), Works (Committee Chairman), Banking & Currency, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Privatization. He was reelected in 2003, but in 2007 lost the PDP primary election to Dahiru Awaisu Kuta, who went on to be elected. Kuta died on 1 March 2008 in his residence in Abuja, and was buried in Minna.

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