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Margaret Ekpo Dies at 92
Ernest Chinwo in Calabar and Sheriff Balogun in Lagos, 09.22.2006

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One of the surviving foremost first republic female politician in the country, Mrs Margaret Ekpo died at the age 92 years.
The elder son Mr Eddy Ekpo who confirmed the death to newsmen in Calabar yesterday said that her mother passed on at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Thursday aftnoon.
Mr. Ekpo said that her remains of her mother was returned to the family house at Ikot Ishie in Calabar.
The Nigerian politician and women's activist, Margaret Ekpo was born in Creek town in the present Odukpani Local Government of Cross River State on July 27, 1914. Margaret's father was an Igbo man with the name Okoroafor Obiasulor. Obiasulor hailed from Agulu -- Uzo Igbo near Awka, the present capital of Anambra State. Obiasulor was a trader sailed to Adiabo Okurikang in Cross River State where he later settled.
Margaret was the sixth of nine children (and the only surviving c hild now) met and married John Udoh Ekpo who was from Ikot Eyo in Eket, in present-day Akwa Ibom State.
Margaret has 12 grandchildren and 13 great grand children and she was the Nigerian Representative at the Inter-Paliamentary Union Conference in 1964, Nigerian Representative - World Women's International Domestic Federation Conference, in 1963, Member of Parliament - Government of Nigeria between 1960 - 1966. She also headed the Women's Interest Representative - Nigerian Constitutional Conference in 1960, and Delegate - Nigerian Constitutional Conference 1959 and 1957, among others

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