Rukayat Shittu, 26, has been declared the winner of the Kwara State House of Assembly election.
According to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s returning officer, Professor Hakeem Ijaya, the game changer, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, garnered 7,521 votes to beat her Peoples Democratic Party rival, who polled 6,957 votes in the Saturday House of Assembly election.
Rukayat will represent Owode/Onire Constituency in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara.
It is germane to note that Shittu, who hails from Manyan in the Onire District of Kwara State, attended Baptist LGA Primary School and later to Government Day Secondary School in Oku-Ire in Ilorin; and then to Kwara State College of Islamic and Legal Studies where she obtained a diploma in Mass Communication and Islamic Studies.
She graduated from the National Open University of Nigeria. Shittu was the first female Senate President of the Congress of Open University of Nigeria, and Publicity Secretary for a pro-democracy group, Kwara Must Change.
In January, Shittu had in an interview said “My plan as a lawmaker is to make laws and sponsor bills that will be of benefit to our people, facilitate and lobby for government projects to my constituency, carry out oversight activities of the executive and ensure that our people have adequate representation.
“I want the future to speak for me and point at me as a role model for youths. I believe my candidature will encourage and pave ways for more young people who are willing to participate in the electoral contests”.
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