Following the February 25th general elections Mrs Ireti Kingibe of the Labour Party (LP) has emerged Senator-elect for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Kingibe, who is the wife of one-time Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babagana Kingibe, scored 202,175 votes to emerge the winner.
Below are four special things about Senator Ireti Kingibe.
Senator @ 69
Born on June 2, 1954, Senator Ireti would be 69 years old in a few weeks after she enters the Senate.
Erudite Queen
Mrs Kingibe started her education at Emotan Preparatory School, where she had her elementary education before heading to Queen’s College in Lagos and Washington Irving High School for her secondary education. She then headed to the University of Minnesota, where she bagged a degree in Civil Engineering.
Lady Engineer
Upon graduating from the University of Minnesota, Ireti worked as a Quality Control engineer with Bradley Precast Concrete Inc. from 1978 to 1979.
She left to join the Minnesota Department of Transportation Design unit, where she worked as an engineer between 1979 and 1991.
Between 1990 to 1994, Kingibe worked as a regional engineer for Lodigiani Nigeria Limited, Lagos.
A well-rounded political heritage
Mrs Kingibe is the younger sister to Ajoke Mohammed, the wife of former Nigeria head of state, Murtala Muhammed. She joined partisan politics in 1990 when she joined the defunct Social Democratic Party(SDP). She was appointed as the Adviser to the party’s national chairman.
Ireti defected to the PDP in 2006 before leaving to join the All Progressive Congress(APC) in 2014.
She joined Labour Party in 2022 and became the FCT senatorial candidate for the 2023 general elections.
