Fred Aghogho Brume (Fred A. Brume, Fred Brume) (25 September 1942 – 12 September 2011) was a Nigerian politician. He was elected Senator for the Delta Central Senatorial District 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. Educational history and background Brume was exceedingly bright, inducted into the oldest engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, as a junior at University of Maine in 1963. He obtained a Chemical Engineering degree from University of Maine in 1965 and a post-graduate degree in Industrial Management from the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) in 1967. Brume joined the World Bank in the fall of 1967 and was an officer of the World Bank until 1969. His background was in engineering and industrial management, where he held various executive positions. He established the Delta Steel Company as the first general manager and CEO in the 1980s, although his work was curtailed under the regime of General Muhammadu Buhari following a military coup in 1983. Senate career 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 reshuffle of the Senate committees Brume became chairman of the Steel committee. He lost this position in another reshuffle 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.