Rukayat Shittu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged the winner of the Owode/Onire constituency, of the Kwara State House of Assembly. According to INEC, the 26-year-old polled 7,521 votes to defeat his closest rival, Abdullah Magaji of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 6,957 votes. Shittu by this feat, is the youngest lawmaker in the state and arguably the youngest in the country to clinch a seat in the 2023 House of Assembly elections. Before she joined the race in 2022, Rukayat practiced as an…
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