December 10, (THEWILL) – A female aspirant has joined the Edo State governorship race. She is Loretta Oduware Ogboro-Okor.
As the only female aspirant in the race, Ogboro-Okor is set to compete with the likes of Olumide Akpata, Asue Ighodalo and Philip Shuaibu, the current deputy governor for Government House, Benin City. She plans to actualise her dream on the platform of the Labour Party.
A Consultant in Obstetrician and Gynaecologist trained in the United Kingdom, Ogboro-Okor is a medical simulator expert and global goodwill ambassador. Currently the president of the University of Benin Alumni Association, UK, she has been able to blend her work as a medical practitioner with being an author, a passionate motivational speaker, women and youth health advocate, educationist, a social entrepreneur and an ardent blogger.
She holds a Master’s degree in public health research from the University of Edinburgh and another in clinical education from Sheffield Hallam University. She has a Ph.D. in law and criminology in view from Sheffield Hallam University. A writer, she contributes to various publications, including the Journal of medical and Basic Scientific Research where she is a member of the editorial board. She also owns a blog that is into advocacy where she writes on issues like politics, gender inclusion and social reform.
A member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK, she is currently a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, as well as an obstetrics skills and drills lead with the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust.
Ogboro-Okor is the author of the autobiography, ‘My Father’s Daughter’ and ‘Heartwebs.’ She is married to Dr.Douglas Okor, a neurosurgeon. She was the leader for the health care policy group in the Obi-Datti presidential campaign and was a panelist at the Big Tent Coalition telethon televised on Nigerian television to raise funds for the labor party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
She is a co-founder of the Ashanti Graham Health and Education Foundation which builds capacity of health care professionals and gives prizes to graduating students in the medical field who excel and was part of the Midwestern professionals led by Don Pedro Obaseki who were calling for restructuring in Nigeria as a group and is a recipient of many awards, including the Accenture 10th Gender mainstreaming award as positive role model West Africa award in the management, consulting and legal services sector.
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