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Iyabo Veronica Anishulowo (née Ajibogun) is a
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educator and elder stateswoman who served the
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at various levels, she is one of the most prominent female political personalities and proponents of gender equality in Africa. She rose through the ranks from grass root level as a teacher to serve as a Federal Minister and Senator. Iyabo Anisulowo is often described as a Liberal Conservative because of her pro-family values and feminine independence through universal quality education stance when she served in the
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, she was recognised as an 'Afropolitan Feminist'.


State politics

Anisulowo joined politics in 1991 when she was appointed Secretary to the Local Government in
Ogun State Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. It is bordered to the south by Lagos State and the Bight of Benin, to the east by Ondo State, and to the north by Oyo and Osun states while its western border forms part of the national borde ...
. A year later, she became the Commissioner of the Ogun State
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. She also served as Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Resources and Minister of State for Education during General
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's regime. She later left the State Ministry for Education to contest for the governorship under the Ogun State chapter of the All People's Party.


Senate

Anishulowo represented Ogun West in the Senate from 2003–2007. The former Senator is one of the members of the People's Democratic Party who defected to join the
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coalition. In October 15, 2004, following allegations that she withdrew N500,000 and N700,000 respectively from the pockets of the Senate Committee for State and
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, Senator Anisulowo was physically assaulted by fellow Senator Isa Mohammed who represented to hardline conservative PDP of Niger West during the
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Administration. She has of course denied this allegation saying the money was for the Interparliamentary Union Meeting in
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,
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that year. Iyabo Anishulowo has never been prosecuted or convicted of any crime.


Personal life

Anishulowo is married with children and lives in
Ilaro Ilaro is a town in Ogun State, Nigeria. Ilaro's population in 2008 was estimated at 33,000 people, and in 2015 it was estimated to have grown to about 60,000. Ilaro is the headquarters of the Yewa South, Yewa South Local government, known as Ye ...
, the biggest metropolitan in the area she represented in the Senate.


References

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