Nigeri’a First Female Senator Franca Afegbua, Is Dead
Nigeria’s first female senator Franca Afegbua has died.
Franca who is the Second Republic’s only woman senator died at the age of 79. Her family announced her passing on Sunday, March 12.
The statement read;
“The Afegbua family of Edo State has confirmed the demise of the first woman senator in Nigeria, Senator Franca Afegbua, whose sad event occurred this morning, Sunday, March 12, 2023. She combined beauty and brain during her service to Nigeria. Funeral details will be announced by the family soon.”
Franca, who was a native of Okpella, a town in Etsako-east LGA of old Bendel state (now split into Edo and Delta states), was elected as the senator representing Bendel-north in October 1983 under the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in Nigeria’s second republic.
Franaca ost her position three months later following the military coup of December 1983.