Governor Babantunde Fashola has dropped current Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Sarah Sosan, and picks Mrs. Victoria Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, as his running mate for the April governorship election in Lagos State. Information available to elombah.com indicates it was Adefulire’s name that the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as Fashola’s running mate in the April election.

This development effectively ends the speculation surrounding the return of the current Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Sarah Sosan, to serve with Fashola for a second term.

Mrs. Orelope-Adefulire has been in politics for close to three decades. A trained secretary and social worker, she, like Sosan she is succeeding, is an Awori from Alimosho, a suburb of Lagos where she is a popular grassroots politician.

Orelope-Adefulire is the daughter of the famous Awori leader in Lagos West, Alhaji Jimoh Kareem Laka Orelope, a leading politician in Lagos West.

She was a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly between 1991 and 1993 and an Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State Independent National Electoral Commission between 2003 and 2007.

While in charge of the Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Ministry since 2007, she is said to have aggressively pursued the skills acquisition and economic empowerment of low income women.

Born 29 September, 1959, Orelope-Adefulire attended the Salvation Army Primary School, Agege from where she obtained the First School Leaving Certificate.

She proceeded to the Lagos Metropolitan College, Yaba and Saint Joseph Secondary School, Agege for her secondary school education, passing out in 1978 with the West African School Certificate.

She was admitted to the Lagos State University, LASU, where she bagged a Diploma in Social Work

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Is she Muslim or Christian?

she's christian

This is ridiculous that the candidate Fashola is not allowed to pick his own running mate but have one imposed on him by the party! I think he is the best governor in the country so far, but this is just ridiculous!