26-Year-Old Journalist Wins House of Assembly Seat In Kwara
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- March 19, 2023
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26-year-old Rukayat Motunrayo Shittu has been declared the winner of the Owode Onire state constituency of Asa Local Government Area in the Kwara State House of Assembly election.
She becomes one of the youngest candidates in Nigeria to contest and win a political seat.
Ms. Shittu who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress polled 7,521 votes to defeat her rival in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 6,957 during Saturday’s election.
Shittu attended Baptist Primary School LGEA in Ilorin, and Government Girls Day Secondary School, Oko Erin, where she obtained her Senior Secondary School Certificate in 2011.
She obtained a diploma certificate in Mass Communication and Islamic Studies in 2015 from the Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies affiliated with Bayero University Kano.
After her diploma, she enrolled in a fashion school. In 2017, she was admitted to the National Open University of Nigeria and graduated in 2022.
Shittu is a former Senate President of the Congress of Students at the National Open University of Nigeria.
In an interview with Premium Times, after she won the nomination as APC candidate, Shittu said her parents are fully in support of her political career.
“I have the best parents anyone could pray for on earth. They are the backbone of my political aspirations and it has been like that since I was an undergraduate. My dad usually advised me to contest positions in school and I mostly got finances for the contests from him. Their disposition regarding my political aspiration is so firm,” she said.
“My dad studied me and knows what is best for me so he doesn’t hesitate when I aspire for things. I had been class rep since my primary school days and that continued until I graduated from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) as the first female senate president of the Congress of NOUN Students (CONS), heading the legislative arm of the students’ association in over 85 study centres across the federation.”
