Mulikat Adeola Akande (born 11 November 1960) is a Nigerian politician and Senatorial aspirant. She was elected into the House of Representatives on the platform of the

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(PDP) representing

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North, South and Orire Constituency in the year 2007 and reelected in 2011.

Early life and education

Mulikat Adeola was born on November 11, 1960, in

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, the northern part of

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to Alhaji and Alhaja Akande who are both deceased, and were a part of the Jokodolu family. She attended St. Annes’ Primary School and Queen Amina College in Kaduna. After her secondary education, she proceeded to College of Arts and Science in

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for her A levels and thereafter went to Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) in 1979, where she read Law and obtained her LLB in 1982 with second class upper division. She went to the

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and was called to bar in 1983. She later went to the

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for her second degree in Law (Masters of Law) in 1985.

Politics

Allege threat to life: They minister of Youth and Sports Development, Chief Sunday Dare warned that noting untoward must happen to Mrs. Mulikat Akande after she raised an alarm that her life was under threat.

References

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