They are female legislators and have been friends since their first term at the House of Representatives. Currently, serving their second terms, these women cannot be ignored on the floor of the House. They are always in company with each other.
For Nkeiruka, her political success didn’t come cheaply. Representing the Isuikwuato/Umenneochi Federal constituency, Abia State, she was a former commissioner of Manpower Development in Abia State, and was also appointed a transition chairman in her local government area. She does not hide the fact that her husband is her financier and helped her wade through the ‘stiff opposition’ women face in politics especially in the eastern part of the country. Quite fashionable, her intelligent contribution on the floor of the House is refreshing. In her early 40s, she is a mother of five.
For one who narrowly missed the speakership of the House, Akande, who is in her early 50s, is not a pushover in politics. A brilliant lawyer, she was said to have taken a cue from her late father, who was also a businessman and staunch politician in Ogbomosho, Oyo State. She was born and raised in Kaduna. Highly cerebral, her foray into politics was in 1998 and by 2003 she contested for the House of Representatives election but lost. Married to an Ogun State indigene, she represents the Ogbomosho North/South/ Orire Federal constituency, Oyo State, at the National Assembly and is currently the House Leader.