Olagbaju elected chairperson of Conference of Nigeria Female Parliamentarians.
Right Honourable Bolaji Olagbaju from Ekiti State has been elected as the Chairperson of Conference of Nigeria Female Parliamentarians (CONFEPA).
Olagbaju, who is the Deputy Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, was overwhelmingly elected at the conference of the Nigerian Female Parliamentarians held in Abuja on Tuesday, November 28, 2023.
Olagbaju, who doubles as the lawmaker representing Ado Ekiti Constituency II in the Ekiti State House of Assembly, was a Senior Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Government before she ran for and was elected as a member of the Ekiti State Parliament.
Olagbaju will take over from former Speaker House of Assembly Edo State. Rt. Hon. Elizabeth Ativie and she will serve a four-year tenure as the chairperson of CONFEPA.
She has promised to make her tenure impactful, saying some of her immediate goals would be to seek for more inclusion of women in Governance in Nigeria and a framework to reactivate the 35 per cent affirmative action in the Nigerian polity.
The new CONFEPA chairperson also said during her tenure, the female lawmakers would devise legitimate means through which they would fight for the abrogation of laws that infringe on women and girl-child citizens’ rights in Nigeria.
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