Abiodun Olujimi, a member of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been sworn in as the senator representing
Ekiti south, by Senate President Ahmad Lawan.
She replaces Dayo Adeyeye who was
sacked as senator by the appeal court sitting in Kaduna on November 6.
Olujimi, who trained as a
journalist, contested and won the Ekiti south senatorial seat in 2015. She ran
for the same office in 2019, but her challenger, Adeyeye, was declared winner
by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
She was declared winner of the
election by the Ekiti state national assembly election petition tribunal; a
decision, the court of appeal upheld.
In a judgement, Uzor Anyanwu, the
presiding judge, affirmed the verdict of the tribunal and asked INEC to issue a
certificate of return to her as the winner of the senatorial poll in the zone.
Olujimi introduced the
gender-equality bill, which was rejected, in the previous senate.
Her return to the senate puts the
number of female senators now at eight.
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