M.K.O Abiola's Wife To Become Lagos State First Female Governor

If things worked out as planned, Chief  Mrs Dupe Onitiri-Abiola,  wife of the late politician and business mogul, Chief MKO Abiola, may become the first female governor Lagos State would have. Onitiri-Abiola emerged the Lagos State governorship flag bearer for the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, in the coming 2015 general elections and she said there are adequate plans in place to ensure she succeeds Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola.

She clinched the ticket as a consensus candidate on Thursday at the UPN congress/primary held at the party secretariat, Unity Road, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, alongside other consensus candidates for Federal House of Representatives and State House of Assembly.
In her acceptance speech, Abiola declared that she is going to be the first female governor of Lagos State as she will succeed the incumbent Governor, Babatunde Fashola.
She said that her party, UPN, founded by the late Obafemi Awolowo and resuscitated by OPC leader, Dr. Fredrick Fasheun, is prepared to take over as the ruling party in the state.