Youngster Nafisat Buge for Parliament Screening Ahead Kwara Cabinet Job

Ibraheem Abdullateef

Twenty-six-year-old political activist and entrepreneur Nafisat Buge is joining the Kwara State Executive Council, again bolstering youth representation in the Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s government which is popular for inclusion, gender parity and commitment to sustainable development.

Nafisat is now scheduled for parliamentary screening on Thursday at the Kwara State House of Assembly amid excitements from the youths constituency and her Baruten political base.

Nafisat, reverred among her peers for her brilliance, oratory skills and extensive network as a young political activist of progressive bent, is an alumnus of the University of Ilorin where she studied Library and Information Science. She has successfully completed her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme ahead of her screening. 

An agribusiness entrepreneur specialised in large scale farm produce, Nafisat has served on many quasi-government committees and panels, among which is the Kwara State Judicial Panel of Inquiry in 2020. She was a member of the Niger State All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Assembly membership screening committee; Secretary of the Grassroots Engagement and Orientation (North Central) for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council; Secretary of the influential Kwara North Development Council (KWANDCO); and Treasurer of the Kwara Progressive Media Organisation (KPMO). 

She also served as Assistant Director of the Humanitarian Director of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council.

The appointee hails from Baruten Local Government, apparently cutting her political teeth from her own father and APC chieftain, Hon. Musa Al-Hassan Buge, who was once the executive chairman of the local government area.

Nafisat’s appointment makes her the youngest  commissioner in the country at the moment, reaffirming the commitment of Kwara Governor AbdulRazaq to unmatched youth inclusion and political empowerment which gives young people a sense of ownership in a country where the average age of the population is just 18.6.

* Abdullateef is a Senior Special Assistant to Kwara State Governor on Communications