Former Cross River State Commissioner of Health, Mrs. Betta Edu, has emerged the National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the just concluded National Convention of the party.
Mrs Edu was reported to have been disqualified by the APC based on non-resignation of her political appointment, a claim which her Media Office refuted on Friday with the information that she had resigned her appointment weeks ago before the Convention.
The South South leaders of the APC comprising Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, former Edo State Governor and National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, among others endorsed Dr. Betta Edu for the position of the National Women Leader zoned to the South South.
Mrs Edu was born on 27 October, 1986. She hails from Ibalebo village in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State.
She attended Federal Government Girls College, Calabar, from where she proceeded to the University of Calabar for Medicine and Surgery.
A Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, United Kingdom, she was a member of the APC National Reconciliation Committee.