Senator Adego Eferakeya, who represented Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly between 2007 and 2011 is dead.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports sources close to the family as saying Eferakeya, a renowned professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology died on Tuesday at the age of 78 after a brief illness.
Eferakeya is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Delta Central constituency of Delta State, Nigeria in April 2007 under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) platform.
He took over from late Senator Felix Ibori, and was succeeded in 2011 by late Senator Akpor Pius Ewherido, who died in 2013.
He was appointed to committees on Privatization, Health, Ethics & Petition, Establishment & Public Service and the Environment.
In July 2009, he was among senators who called for the creation of new states as part of the process to amend the 1999 constitution.
In October 2009, he led the Senate debate on a bill seeking to establish a national DNA data bank to help in the investigation of crime and identification of unknown corpses. The bill passed its second reading.
He objected to the October 4th deadline by the Federal government for ending the amnesty it had granted to militants in the Niger Delta, saying termination of the amnesty was premature.
Born at Adagbrasa of Aghalokpe, Okpe Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria, on 9 July 1940, he gained a B Pharm from the University of Ife in 1969, a PhD from the University of Kansas Medical Centre (United States) in 1975, and an MD (Pharmacologist and Toxicologist, Physician) from the University of Kansas in 1977.
He became a Professor of Pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Benin in 2005.
Before running for the Senate, he was Chairman of the Hospital Management Board; Head of the Department of Pharmacology; Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy; Secretary of the Urhobo Political Forum Elders Council and Grand Knight of the Sepele Sub-Council.
He has authored or coauthored a number of papers, particularly dealing with pharmacy and blood pressure.
The family and the revered Okpe Council of Chiefs are yet to release any official statement on his passage as at the time of filing this report.
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