| The Daily Crucible | Monday, March 28, 2022
One of the surprising and interesting outcomes of the last Saturday convention of the All Progressives Party (APC) at Eagle Square, Abuja on Saturday was the crowning of Dr. Betta C. Edu as party's National Women Leader (NWL).
Barely one year after her defection to the APC from PDP, former Cross River State Commissioner for Health, Betta Edu, is now the APC national women leader.
A former director-general of the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Mary Ekpere, who was in the CPC, was said to have been persuaded to withdraw from the position for Edu. CPC was one of the three core parties that merged to form APC in 2013.
The young Nigerian politician is barely 35.
Betta C. Edu was born 27 October 1986.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, United Kingdom, and currently the Cross River State Commissioner for Health and National Chairman of Nigeria Health Commissioners Forum. She is also a member of Presidential Health Reform Committee and National All progressive congress (APC) Reconciliation Committee.
CAREER
She is a Physician and a Public Health Specialist.
Betta completed her secondary education at Federal Government Girls College, Calabar, she is a graduate of medicine and surgery from the University of Calabar. She obtained a master's degree (MSc) in Public Health in Developing Countries in 2014 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, and holds a doctorate degree (PhD) in Public Health from Texila America University and other post graduate certificates on public health from Harvard T.H CHAN School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America with a leadership certificate from Havard Medical School.
AWARDS
Quintessential Nigeria Woman Award: Excellent Women International (2020)[5]
Medical Expert of the Year (2020) [6]
Pan Africa Award for Humanitarian services (2018)
Award of 50 Future Leaders in Nigeria, (2017)
Hero of COVID-19, National Youth Council of Nigeria (2020)
Award of the Most Dedicated student Unionist of the year—Students’ Union Government (SUG) 2007–2008, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria.
Award of Top 100 most distinguished African women - African leading women conference and awards (ALWCA)
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