The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Rukayat Shittu, has been declared winner of a seat in the Kwara State House of Assembly.
Rukayat, 26, will represent the Owode/Onire Constituency in the Asa Local Government Area of the State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Returning Officer, Professor Akeem Olasunkanmi Ijaiya, announced that Shittu polled 7,521 votes in the Saturday’s House of Assembly election.
Shittu defeated her closest rival, Abdullah Magaji of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 6,957 votes in the elections.
“Having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the requirements of the law, she is hereby declared the winner of the election,” Ijaiya declared.
This makes her the youngest lawmaker in the State and in the country to clinch the House of Assembly seat in the 2023 House of Assembly elections.
She is a former senate president of the Congress of NOUN Students (CONS) at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and a journalist.