Bello el-Rufai, a lawmaker, asserts that Hadiza Balarabe is Nigeria's first elected female deputy governor. He chose Balarabe as his running mate for the 2019 governorship election in Kaduna state.
Bello el-Rufai, lawmaker representing Kaduna north federal constituency in the house of representatives, has claimed that Hadiza Balarabe is Nigeria ’s first elected female deputy governor .The podcast, with 16.3k subscribers, has 94,760 views, 602 comments and 2.9k likes.Balarabe as his running mate for the 2019 governorship election in the state.
Before her selection as el-Rufai’s running mate, Balarabe was the executive secretary of the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency.Speaking on the achievements of his father in Kaduna, the lawmaker said his father, through Balarabe, revamped all the 255 primary healthcare centres in the state.
However, checks by TheCable revealed that since the return to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria has had several elected female deputy governors in different states before Balarabe.Lagos was the first state to elect a female deputy governor. In 1992, during a short civilian rule, Micheal Otedola was elected governor of Lagos state under the National Republic Convention with Sinatu Ojikutu as his running mate.In 1999, Nigeria transitioned to civilian rule.
In Osun, Olusola Obada served as deputy governor from 2003 to 2010 during the administration of Olagunsoye Oyinlola, while Titilayo Laoye-Tomori became the deputy governor of the state from 2010 to 2018.Pauline Tallen became the deputy governor of Plateau state in 2007, and the first woman to be a deputy governor in northern Nigeria while Ipalibo Banigo deputised Nyesom Wike in Rivers from 2015 to 2023.
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