A 32-year-old Medical doctor, Islamiyat Oluwatoyin Abdulkadir has emerged the flag bearer of the Social Democratic Party for the bye-election in Ibadan North federal constituency.
The bye-election, scheduled to hold on August 16, is to fill the vacant House of Representative seat in the federal constituency last held by the Miskilu Akinremi.
Islamiyat holds a Masters degree in Cancer Research and Precision Oncology with First Class Honours and a Medicine Bachelor and Bachelor in Surgery (MBBS) with Distinction/First Class Honours from the International University of Africa, Khartoum, Sudan (2011 –2016).
In 2023, she was a member of the Youth Presidential Campaign Council in South West Nigeria of the All Progressives Congress (APC) where she led a group of healthcare workers who provided healthcare services/outreaches to various rural communities in Oyo State.
She also initiated the first Medico-political Symposium in the history of Nigeria’s politics, facilitating a dialogue among candidates (Presidential, Gubernatorial and Senatorial) of the APC and the healthcare workers across the various states.
In 2018, she served as the Chief House Physician at the Urology Department, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, and as the Chief House Physician at the Paediatric Endocrinology Department in 2017.