I speak from my mouth to you how grateful I am. I never knew I would ever be in this place. I remember the first time I started this journey, I had press conference , a press man asked me why don’t you start from House of Rep, why did you want to go to the Senate but you know he is one of those after my first term who came back and commended me, we are friends today, when I see him , we will shake hands.

God sustained me for three terms, from the 7th assembly, 8th assembly and 9th assembly and I am still confused myself how I have been able to continue this journey.

At the time , I even thought that let me retire and begin to face my family because serving the nation takes a lot of sacrifice and it starts with a sacrifice from your home, your children, even your better half. It takes a lot of sacrifice to want to give time to serve the nation. At the same it’s a great privilege for all of us that are here.

Over the years, we have made friends, brothers, sisters across our various tribes , ethnicity and religious divide. In this room we have entire Nigerians being represented and we were able to forge ahead, we were able to come together when we need to come together to make good decisions for the country and we did that as good elder statesmen and stateswomen

My thanks will go to my husband for even giving me the support …and he gives me little advise when I seek for it but he gave me the freedom to be myself and to be able to make the contributions I felt were necessary for our people especially the women and our youths and I believed that God almighty uses weak things to …. and one of those weak things God used to do exploit in this hallowed chamber.

(Premium Times)