Air Commodore Ibrahim Kefas (Rtd), who served as Military Administrator of Delta State during the military regime of General Sani Abacha is dead.
Kefas, who also served as Military Administrator of Cross River State died as Nigeria marks her 61st anniversary of independence.
Kefas was Military Administrator of Cross River State between December 1993 and September 1994, and then of Delta State until August 1996.
As a Group Captain, Kefas was appointed Governor of Delta State on 26 September 1994.
While Governor of Delta State, he sacked professor Frank Mene Adedemiswanye Ukoli, Vice-Chancellor of Delta State University for political reasons, an incident recorded in Ukoli’s book: A State University is Born: Throes of Birth, Ordeals of Growth.
He was born into a Christian family on January 27, 1948 in Wukari, Taraba State.
He is the oldest of many children born to Christian missionary Atewunu Angyu Kefas (Manu).
His father, Manu, was one of the missionaries to introduce Christianity to the region.
Being a very devout Christian, he put Ibrahim Kefas in Bible College by the age of thirteen hoping he would become a preacher.
Ibrahim Kefas, being the youngest student in Bible College at time, completed his program before most but had other plans.
He was fascinated by planes and wanted to fly them so he joined the Nigerian Defence Academy and became a pilot before he was 20 years old.
In March 2002, as Taraba State Chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Kefas and other PDP politicians were attacked by over 200 youths who invaded a PDP rally, and narrowly escaped death.
Kefas was nominated as National Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for Governor in the 2007 elections in Taraba.
