Biography
Bassey Otu: Biography, Age, Wife, Children, Career, Controversy and More
Who is Bassey Otu? Biography, Wikipedia
Bassey Edet Otu is a long-serving lawmaker from Cross River state and the state’s governor-elect following the March 18, 2023, gubernatorial election.
Age
Otu also known as Sweet Prince was born on October 18, 1959, and is currently 63 years old. He will be 64-year-old later in the year, on October 18, 2023.
Tribe
Bassey Otu was born in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State.
Family
He grew up in his home city of Calabar and in Jos, Plateau State, where his father had been assigned to the mission of the Church of Scotland.
Parents
His parents are late Elder Edet and Mrs Edet Okon Otu of Adiabo in Odukpani LGA of Cross River State.
Wife and children
Bassey Otu is married to Mrs. Eyoanwan Bassey Otu and the marriage is blessed with children.
Education
Otu has a bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Social Sciences from the University of Calabar.
Career before politics
According to his About Me, before entering politics, he was engaged in banking and then in the petroleum sector. He also dabbles in farming
Political career
Otu was elected a Member of the House of Representatives in April 2003 to represent Calabar Municipality/Odukpani Federal Constituency and was reelected in April 2007.
Bassey Edet Otu, a Nigerian politician, was elected to the Federal House of Representatives in 2003 and served the Calabar Municipal/Odukpani constituency of Cross River State, Nigeria, from 2003 to 2011.
Within this period (2003-2011), he was Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Vice Chairman, House Committee on National Population, and member of committees on Power, Ministry of Niger Delta, Inter-Parliamentary Relations, Inter-Intra Party Relations, Environment, Water Resources, and Defense.
On the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) platform, he won the election for Senator for Cross River South in April 2011.
Later, in 2016, he joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), and in the 2019 election, the party chose him to represent Cross River South in the Senate.
He became the Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance and later Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking and other financial Institutions; he was also a member, Committee on Navy, Power, Petroleum and Water Resources.
In 2022, he emerged as the consensus governorship candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Cross River.
Controversy
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