Rose Oko was elected into office as the first female representative from her constituency in June 2011 and sat as Deputy Chairman House Committee on Education.
12 Facts About Rose Oko
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Rose Oko was the Senator representing the people of Cross River North Senatorial District.
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Rose Oko was elected into office as the first female representative from her Senatorial District in June 2015.
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Rose Oko grew up the first of two children from her mother and the seventh of fifteen from her father.
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Rose Oko held this position till 1984 when she moved to the University of Calabar to become an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics until 1986 when she was promoted to become Lecturer in the same department.
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Rose Oko held this position simultaneously with the National Commissioner, National Electoral Commission now known as Independent National Electoral Commission.
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In 1999, Rose Oko registered and formed part of the team to introduce the People's Democratic Party to Cross River State as an inactive member of the party.
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Rose Oko continued to serve as chairman of the board of trustees for the NDP party up until 2007, when she ran in the country's second official democratic election as a gubernatorial candidate for Cross River State, a contest she lost to the PDP candidate.
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Rose Oko was elected as a senator and she represented the north of the state where she was born.
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Rose Oko was elected a Senator twice, representing Cross River North senatorial district.
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Rose Oko was the chairman committee on Trade and investment.
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Rose Oko died on 23 March 2020 in a hospital in London, United Kingdom.