Fred Brume
| Fred Ayo Aghogho Brume | |
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| Senator for Delta Central | |
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In office 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2003 |
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| Succeeded by | Felix Ibru |
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| Born | 25 September 1942 Delta State, Nigeria |
| Died | 12 September 2011 |
Fred Aghogho Brume (25 September 1942 – 12 September 2011) was elected Senator for the Delta Central constituency of Delta 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.
Brume's background was in engineering and industrial management, where he held various executive positions. He established the Delta Steel Complex as general manager in the 1980s, although the complex was later abandoned.
After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 Brume founded and became president of the Urhobo Leadership Forum in Abuja. He was appointed to committees on Science & Technology, Establishment, Niger Delta (Chairman), Privatization, Tourism & Culture and Economic Affairs. In February 2001, after a shuffle of the Senate committees Brume became chairman of the Steel committee. He lost this position in another shuffle in October 2002, apparently because he opposed moves by Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim to impeach President Olusegun Obasanjo. Brume had accused supporters of impeachment of evil intentions for the country, saying they were not comfortable with having a Southerner as President. He said the move would truncate democracy in Nigeria if it succeeded.
As a Senator he was instrumental in establishing the Niger Delta Development Commission, gained approval for establishing a federal university in Delta State, pushed for highway construction and attempted to revive the steel sector. However, Brume's moderate position on allocation of revenues from oil produced in the Niger Delta to other regions of the country earned him unpopularity in his home state.
After the Delta Central Development Coalition passed a vote of no confidence on him in September 2002, Brume did not succeed in getting the PDP nomination to run for a second term in the Senate. The PDP instead selected former governor Felix Ibru as their candidate. Brume decamped to the Alliance for Democracy (AD), becoming senatorial candidate for that party. After losing the election to Ibru, Brume filed a petition with the Delta State Electoral Tribunal seeking nullification of Ibru's election.
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