26-year-old wins assembly seat in Nigeria

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A 26-year-old Nigerian woman, Rukayat Shittu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the Owode/Onire Constituency seat in Kwara state.

The Returning Officer, Prof. Hakeem Ijaya, said Rukayat, scored 7,521 votes to beat her PDP rival who polled 6,957 votes.

Also, the Kwara State Speaker, Yakubu Danladi-Salihu of the APC, won the seat for the Ilesha-Gwanara constituency for a second term.

The Returning Officer, Dr. Adewale Rafiu, said Danladi-Salihu polled 14, 949 votes to defeat his closest rival, Usman Abubakar of the PDP, who got 2,072 votes.

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