The first female Senator in Nigeria, Sen. Franca Afegbua has been reportedly dead at the age of 81
Her dead was said to have occured in Benin City, capital of Edo State at a private hospital after few month battle with illness.
The late Franca Afegbua who was born in 1942, was elected senator in 1983 on the platform of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) where she represented the then Bendel North Senatorial District.
She served was in the upper chamber of the National Assembly from October to December 1983 before the Buhari military coup brought the second republic to an end on December 31, 1983.
Her death was confirmed by Kassim Afegbua, one of her younger nephews, a journalist who served as a Commissioner for information in Adams Oshiomhole administration in Edo State and currently a member of the Tinubu’s Presidential Campaign Council, who said her aunty died Sunday morning and her remains deposited at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) mortuary.