Patricia Olubunmi Foluke Etteh rose to fame when she became the first woman to ever hold the mantle as Speaker of the House of Representatives between June and October 2007 when the late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua held sway as president.
The Osun-born female politician was poised to consolidate her political status when she was impeached and removed from office for allegedly spending a whopping sum of N628 million to renovate her official residence.
Bruised but undaunted, the trained hairdresser and cosmetologist dusted her Diploma in Law certificate from the University of Abuja and returned to school for further studies. She headed for the United Kingdom for Law and Forensic Studies at the prestigious Buckingham University, emerging with an LL.B last year.
Now a certified lawyer, Etteh may have shamed detractors who mocked her in those heady days for being “a mere hairdresser.”
