Official of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC on Sunday evening declared a 26 year old Rukayat Shittu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, winner of Owode Onire state constituency of Asa Local Government Area in Kwara State House of Assembly election.
The APC candidate polled 7,521 to defeat her rival in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 6,957 during Saturday’s election.
This has made her one of the youngest candidates in Nigeria to contest and win a political seat.
She was a former Senate President of the Congress of NOUN Students (CONS) at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and a journalist.
Shittu attended Baptist Primary School LGEA in Ilorin, and Government Girls Day Secondary School, Oko Erin to obtain her Senior Secondary School Certificate in 2011. She proceeded to Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies affiliated with Bayero University Kano where she got a diploma certificate in Mass Communication and Islamic Studies in 2015.
She worked as the head of the news department for an online media outlet in Kwara, Just Event Online.