The Cross River senator died while receiving treatment in the United Kingdom.
Another member of the 9th Senate, Senator
Benjamin Uwajumogu, also died in December 2019 [Premium Times]
Oko is the third member of the 9th Senate to have died since inauguration in June 2019, following the deaths of Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu (Imo South - APC) in December 2019, and Senator Ignatius Datong Longjan (Plateau South - APC) in February 2020.
Senator Rose Oko, the representative of Cross River North in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, has died.
The chairperson of the Senate
Committee on Trade and Investment died at a medical facility in the
United Kingdom on Monday, March 23, 2020, according to a report by The
Nation.
The 63-year-old, a member of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), was first elected to the Senate in 2015 and
re-elected last year.
She was also a member of the House of Representatives between 2011 and 2015.
Oko is the third member of the 9th Senate to have died since inauguration in June 2019, following the deaths of Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu (Imo South - APC) in December 2019, and Senator Ignatius Datong Longjan (Plateau South - APC) in February 2020.
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