PDP bids late National Woman Leader farewell, as Obaseki, Damagum pour accolades

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki has said that with the death of the National Woman Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prof Stella Effah-Attoe, the party has suffered a major loss.
Obaseki said this on Wednesday during the valedictory session organized in honour of Prof Effah-Attoe by the PDP national leadership at the party’s National Secretariat, Wadata House,Abuja.
The late National Woman Leader, according to Obaseki, was always a voice of intervention, during her life time.
The Governor harped on the pertinent need to imbibe the values Prof Stella Effah-Attoe lived for and stood for while she was a member of the National Working Committee, NWC, of PDP.
The Edo State Governor said, “I am here to join you to commiserate with the family of our dear sister and woman leader. I am also commiserating with the family because i did not have the opportunity to join my colleagues, the Governors, when they went to the house to commiserate with the family.
“So much has been said about this amazing woman and everyone that has spoken has relieved their experience they had with her.
‘She was someone that was always present, especially during the last presidential election and that was when I had the time to speak with her.
“This our party has suffered a major loss, because she was a voice of intervention.
“We should try to imbibe the values she lived for and stood for while she was a member of our National Working Committee”, the Governor said.