BETTA EDU EMERGES AS APC NATIONAL WOMEN LEADER
Emmanuel Alfred
Dr Betta Edu, Cross River commissioner for health, has been elected as the national women leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Edu won the election after amassing 2,063 votes to defeat Helen Effiom, a lawyer, who accrued 114 votes.
Edu, Effiom and Mary Ekpere, former director-general of the National Women Development Centre (NWDC), were all vying for the position At the beginning of the party’s convention.
The APC this year adopted the consensus method for all the national working committee (NWC) offices, but this did not go down well with some aspirants and some aspirants decided to withdraw from the positions they were contesting for with Ekpere refusing to do same.
It reportedly took some persuasion by Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation for the former director-general to yield around 12:00am Sunday morning, leaving Edu and Effiom in the race.
After hours of trying to have a consensus candidate, the two candidates decided to slug it out at the poll.
The decisions to go ahead with the poll was made around 3:00am and the process was concluded around 8:00am with Edu being declared winner of the poll.
