The
governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos, Mr Jimi Agbaje on Sunday announced
Alhaja Safurat Abdulkareem as his running mate for the 2015 election in the
state.
Agbaje made
the announcement in a statement, signed on his behalf, by his Director of
Publicity, Mr Felix Oboagwina.
Abdulkareem
was running mate to late PDP governorship candidate, late Mr Funso Williams in
2003 .
Abdulkareem,
a trained teacher and an accountant, is the wife of a retired Air Force officer
and holds an MBA degree.
The
statement quoted her as saying that she would complement her principal, and
assist in ushering into Lagos “a refreshing atmosphere, devoid of state-brewed
intimidation and human rights abuses”.
“I feel
humbled about being chosen for this noble responsibility.
“Mr. Jimi
Agbaje is an amiable personality. He is a complete gentleman. I hope I can
really, really complement him and assist him in winning the 2015 election
because Lagosians strongly desire a change in government.” she had said.
Describing
PDP’s chances in the governorship polls as very bright, the deputy governorship
candidate said she and Agbaje were entering the race at a time when Lagosians
wanted to break the shackles of subjugation that had held them bound for 16
years.
“Our chances
are very bright. Everybody wants a change in Lagos. They want personalities who
can bring positive programmes to their lives.
“We want to
usher into Lagos a better way of governance, devoid of coercion and
intimidation” she said.
Born 23rd
June 1961 to the family of Mr. Abdulmananu Mofolorunsho Layode and Mrs. Risikat
Ayinke Layode, Abdulkareem began her educational life in Ansar-ud-Deen Primary
School, Badagry, Lagos, between 1966 and 1972.
From 1975 to
1980, she attended Government Teachers’ College, Badagry, where she obtained a
Teacher’s Grade II Certificate.
She,
thereafter, proceeded to the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, from 1985 to 1987
for an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Accounting, followed by a Higher
National Diploma (HND) from the Kano State Polytechnic (1990).
In 2006, she
completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Management from the University of
Ado-Ekiti.
Starting out
in her working career as an Accounting Officer with Bintu Binta Trading
Company, Kano, in 1987, Mrs. Abdulkarim later returned to the South-West, where
she rose to become the General Manager of the Ikeja, Lagos-based Disk
Engineering Limited (1990 to 1996), and later Managing Director of Transmit
Network (1996 to 1999).
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