Former Cross River Senator, Ita Giwa, has stated that she joined politics for a voice and not to be a politician.
Giwa made this statement on Saturday during an interview on Arise Television monitored by Newspot.
Newspot reports that the lawmaker, who represented Cross River South Senatorial District in the Senate from 1999 to 2003, recently celebrated her 80th birthday.
She said, “I joined politics for a voice and not to be a politician. I doubt 10 women have gone through what I’ve faced. When they talk about being young, I’ve always felt I’m aging well – I’ve never been young.
“I saw my mother, a journalist, arrested multiple times. She was into Igbo politics. During the war, we were in Biafra. She made us Biafrans.
“I met a journalist who left a promising career in America to contribute here. He married me, but despite living separately, I had the worst experience of my life seeing his shattered body in the mortuary.”
