Isn’t it amazing that the future we have been waiting for is finally here? Youths are finally making their ways into the places of leadership.
We in the days where women will not only be limited to the kitchen and ‘the other room’, but also hold key positions in the society.
The gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections took place all through the country on March 18, 2023.
At the end, the election produced a 26-year-old woman, Rukayat Shittu. She is the winner of a constituency in Kwara State.
A luta Continua.
This made her one of the youngest female in Nigeria to contest and win a political seat.
Meanwhile, she is a journalist and former Senate President of the Congress of NOUN Students (CONS) at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
INEC’s returning officer, Professor Hakeem Ijaya, announced that Rukayat, who is a member of the All Progressvies Congress, scored 7,521 votes to beat her PDP opponent, who polled 6,957 votes in the State House of Assembly election.
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the young lady will represent the Owode/Onire constituency in Asa Local Government Area in the Kwara State House of Assembly.
Meanwhile, Rukayat is being celebrated on social media. People are encouraging her to use her position as a platform to represent the interests of Nigerian youths.
