[3] Her husband is retired Major-General Paul Omu, formerly Military Governor of South-Eastern State, Nigeria.
[5] Omu was elected Senator on the People's Democratic Party platform in 1999 for the Delta South constituency.
Letters tainted with anthrax had recently been reported in United States after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.
[9] In August 2002, she was a target of attack by senators who distrusted her close relationship with President Obasanjo and her statement that the one-day election clause in the Electoral Bill 2002 might be reversed.
[13] In an August 2003 interview, she urged all the warring groups in Warri to lay down their arms, saying that Ijaws and Itsekiris are brothers and should not allow political differences or other socio-economic factors to separate them.