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26-Year-Old APC Candidate Wins Assembly Seat
26-Year-Old APC Candidate Wins Assembly Seat
Rukayat Motunrayo Shittu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the House of Assembly election in Owode/Onire constituency, Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State, has been declared the winner of the poll.
INEC returning officer for the exercise, Prof Akeem Olasunkanmi Ijaiya, announced the results, saying Shittu received 7,521 votes to defeat his closest rival, Abdullah Magaji of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who received 6,957 votes.
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“Having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the requirements of the law, she is hereby declared the winner of the election” Prof Ijaiya declared.
Shittu is the state’s youngest legislator, and possibly the country’s youngest, to be elected to the House of Assembly in the 2023 elections.
After quitting her job to pursue politics, the former online journalist entered the race in 2022.
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