Frank Oputa-Otutu was a Nigerian politician who was a parliamentarian during the First Republic. He was a member of the NCNC political party and led the Aboh division of the party. Oputa-Otutu was a senator of the Federal republic of Nigeria in 1964.[1]
Oputa-Otutu studied at Yaba School of Pharmacy between 1937 and 1941, and he later established his own drugstore in 1947.[2]
Prior to Nigeria's independence in 1960, he was a member of the Western House of Assembly and at one point, he was selected as a minority whip of the house.[3] After the First Republic was truncated, Oputa-Otutu was nominated as Commissioner of Establishments in the Mid-Western State.[4]
In 1966, along with Shehu Shagari and Hon Olaniran, they represented Nigeria at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's Conference where he talked about a continued focus on South Africa's racial problems upon the exit of the country from the commonwealth.[5]
References
edit- ^ Written at Apapa. "Oputa-Otutu Blames Dafe". Morning Post. Lagos. September 29, 1964.
- ^ Orimoloye (1977). Biographia Nigeriana : a biographical dictionary of eminent Nigerians. G.K. Hall. p. 301. ISBN 0816180490.
- ^ Post, Ken (1973). The price of liberty; personality and politics in Colonial Nigeria. University Press. p. 308. ISBN 9780521085038.
- ^ Babah, Chinedu (6 March 2017). "OPUTA-OTUTU, Frank". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation.
- ^ Church, Frank (1966). Europe today: report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate by Senator Frank Church on a study mission to Brussels, Paris, London, Bonn, Berlin and the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Conference at Geneva, My 1966. United States Government Printing Office. p. 44. OCLC 492782270.