Here are 10 things you do not know about Ireti Kingibe

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1 year ago

2023/03/01

The FCT senatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Ireti Kingibe, has been declared the winner of the 2023 senatorial election.

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.

Here are 10 things you probably do not know about her;

Ireti was born on June 2, 1954. She would be 69 years old by June 2, 2023.
Ireti is the younger sister to Ajoke Mohammed, the wife of former Nigeria head of state, Murtala Muhammed.
Ireti 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.
After 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.
Ireti 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.