Her name is Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, she's a woman, and she's just been elected to the Nigerian Senate.
That's a big deal in a country where women make up just 49% of the population, but Akpoti-Uduaghan just happens to be the first woman elected to the upper chamber of the country's National Assembly, the Guardian reports.
Akpoti-Uduaghan, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, was declared the winner of the Feb.
25 election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, but she challenged the results, and on Tuesday, an appellate court upheld that decision, the Guardian reports.
Akpoti-Uduaghan had accused the APC- incumbent governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, of thuggery, voter intimidation, and other electoral infractions, but the election tribunal, Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court found no merit in her petition.
Bello congratulated Akpoti-Uduaghan on her victory, but in an interview with Channels TV on Tuesday, Akpoti-Uduaghan said, "You don't endanger people and set out to kill people; you destroy properties; you don't frustrate the electoral process just because you want your
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