Matthew Mbu Junior
Politician
Who is Matthew Mbu Junior?
Matthew Tawo Mbu Junior was elected Senator for the Cross River Central constituency of Cross River State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People's Democratic Party platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.
Mbu's father, also Matthew Tawo Mbu,is a Nigerian lawyer, politician, diplomat, and a permanent fixture in Nigerian political affairs for more than fifty years. After taking his seat in the Senate, Mbu Junior was appointed to committees on Security & Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Defense, Women Affairs and Privatization. An October 2002 survey of the performance of senators noted that in the first three years of the current Assembly, he had presented five bills.
After Mbu had left the Senate, in November 2003 his house in Abuja was slated for demolition. However, the demolition team was stopped from pulling down his and neighboring houses when it was found that one of them was owned by a powerful businessman. In a February 2010 interview with the Vanguard, Mbu called on the National Assembly and state governors to force the Federal Executive Council to declare the ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua incapacitated so Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan could assume his duties.
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