Betty Apiafi on Thursday, emerged the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for the Rivers West Senatorial district.
Jocelyne Betty Okagua Apiafi (born 19 February 1962) is a Nigerian economist, retired banker, school teacher and politician.
In the 2007 general elections, she was elected to the Nigerian House of Representatives as a candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the federal constituency of Abua—Odual—Ahoada East.
She was subsequently re-elected in the 2011 and 2015 general elections.
Apiafi replaces Osinachukwu Ideozu, the current Senator representing Rivers West senatorial district who defected to the ruling All Progressive Congress in August.
