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Franca Afegbua was elected senator in 1983.
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Her election at the time made her the first woman to serve in the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly.
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She passed away on Sunday.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Franca Afegbua, Nigeria’s first woman to be elected Senator.
She was 79.
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Afegbua’s family confirmed she passed away in the early hours of Sunday, March 12, 2023.
She was born in Okpella, in present-day Edo State.
The deceased was elected in 1983 under the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) to represent the then Bendel North Senatorial District of old Bendel State in the Senate of the Second Republic.
Afegbua had her tertiary education in Sofia, Bulgaria, and won an international hairstyling competition in 1977 before joining active politics in 1983.
She reportedly targeted wooing more women in Etsako land to vote for her which was a strategy that gave her a slim victory in the election against the established politician, John Umolu.
Before the seasoned politician ventured into politics in the Second Republic, she worked as a hairdresser in Lagos State focusing on high-income clients.
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The Afegbua family said funeral arrangements will be announced soon.
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