High flying Senator and erstwhile Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Khairat Abubakar-Gwadabe, is one woman you would like to meet. Beautiful, stylish, intelligent and radiant, she is a powerful woman to reckon with up North as she flaunts her intellectual prowess at various fora. But above all, Khairat, the beautiful wife of Col.

Lawan Gwadabe (rtd), former Military Governor of Niger State, has returned to the social klieglight after her rumoured illness that took her out of circulation for some months. From all indications, it seems she has put behind the dark days and has since started stepping out to parties.

The Abuja-based Senator who presently runs an NGO called Women Widows, was one of the most active senators in her days at the National Assembly in Abuja. Her father is one of the most powerful men in Ilorin, Kwara State. She married Gwadabe in a top society wedding that shook the whole of Kwara State and beyond, in year 2000.