26-year old NOUN student congress leader wins Assembly election

26-year old NOUN student congress leader wins Assembly election

... As late Kashamu's 26-year old son wins in Ogun

By Christianah Fawale

Fountain Newsbreaker, Assistant Editor

In Kwara state, a 26-year-old Rukayat Shittu has been declared winner of the Kwara state House of Assembly seat in the just concluded election.

Rukayat is a former Senate President of Congress of NOUN Students (CONS) at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

In the result announced by the INEC returning officer, Professor Hakeem Ijaya, Rukayat who contested on the platform of APC scored 7,521 votes to beat her PDP rival, who polled 6,957 votes in the Saturday House of Assembly election.

In an interview with BBC, she made it known that, "she knows and understands the needs of the people and she believes that she is laying a foundation for other women"

She encouraged women to involve in politics and not to belittle themselves. She said in the interview that "women can multitask" she encourages women to multitask political role with family role.

Also in Ogun State, Rasheed Kashamu, son of the late Senator Buruji Kashamu has been announced as winner of the House of Assembly election in Ijebu North Constituency 1.

He polled 10, 004 votes to defeat the incumbent member of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Sylvester ‘Niyi Abiodun, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)