26-year-old Rukayat Shittu has won a seat in the Kwara State House of Assembly.
Rukayat – a former Senate President of Congress of NOUN Students (CONS) – will represent the Owode/Onire constituency, Asa local government of Kwara State.
In the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Professor Hakeem Ijaya, the lady who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scored 7,521 votes to beat her Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival who polled 6,957 votes in Saturday’s exercise.