The first female Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mrs Jumoke Akindele-Ajulo, on Saturday welcomed her first child at 54 after years of marriage
The news of her newborn baby was broken on social media where friends and political associates were congratulating her.
A post on the Facebook page of one of her associates, Segun Odidi, wrote, “What God cannot do doesn’t exist.
“First Female Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly delivered a bouncing baby on Saturday.
“Her first fruit!! What a cheering news! i’m so happy for you big sis. Congratulations Rt. Hon Jumoke Akindele.”
One Yinka Ogunleye who said to be her close associates, also wrote on her facebook, “BREAKING NEWS!! First Female Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, got delivered of a baby yesterday.
“HER FIRST BABY!! GOD IS INDEED AWESOME!! Congratulations, Rt Hon Jumoke Akindele. My own darling big sister. This is the best news I’ve woken up to in a loooooong while!!”
Akindele was in the Assembly between 2011 and 2019 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
She led the house between May, 2014 and March 2017. She represented Okitipupa State Constituency 1 in the Assembly.