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I was a double minority. I was young and I was a woman...but I felt there was a gap. "I think it was the lure of that ... that got me interested in politics.

— Nnenna Elendu Ukeje

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If there's no disincentives for the perpetrators of violence, my fear is that the political space for women is going to continue to shrink.

We must have people who actually understand, who are the beneficiaries of these policies, being part of the policy formulation.

He (her father) was absolutely supportive. He watched me for three years, my teething years. Every time there was something about me in the news, he would buy all the papers.

I would say that my greatest achievement in my dichotomous world is the ability to run a home and a career while challenging the narrative of the typical Nigerian female politician.

I just didn't feel that my voice was represented in the kind of laws that were passed. I didn't think that my demographics ever showed up on the radar, with the things that we were thinking about, talking about.

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