2023 election: 26-year-old Rukayat Shittu wins assembly seat in Kwara

By Jimisayo Opanuga

19 March 2023 | 9:26 pm

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Rukayat Shittu, has been declared the winner of the Kwara State House of Assembly election. Shittu, who is 26 years old, will represent the Owode/Onire Constituency in the Asa Local Government Area in the state. READ ALSO: AbdulRazaq declared winner of Kwara State governorship election The Independent National Electoral…

Rukayat Shittu, a lawmaker-elect in the Kwara State House of Assembly

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Rukayat Shittu, has been declared the winner of the Kwara State House of Assembly election.

Shittu, who is 26 years old, will represent the Owode/Onire Constituency in the Asa Local Government Area in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) returning officer, Professor Akeem Olasunkanmi Ijaiya, said that Shittu polled 7,521 votes in the Saturday House of Assembly election.

Shittu defeated her closest rival, Abdullah Magaji of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 6,957 votes during the elections.

“Having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the requirements of the law, she is hereby declared the winner of the election,” Ijaiya declared.

This makes her the youngest lawmaker in the state and in the country to clinch the House of Assembly seat in the 2023 House of Assembly elections.

She is a former senate president of the Congress of NOUN Students (CONS) at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and a journalist.

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