Nnenna Elendu Ukeje

Nnenna Ijeoma Elendu Ukeje is a Nigerian politician.

Quotes

• If there's no disincentives for the perpetrators of violence, my fear is that the political space for women is going to continue to shrink.
  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, When Women Rule: Nigerian lawmaker fears violence is scaring women away from politics, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 October 2017.
• We must have people who actually understand, who are the beneficiaries of these policies, being part of the policy formulation.
  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, When Women Rule: Nigerian lawmaker fears violence is scaring women away from politics, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 October 2017.
• I just didn't feel that my voice was represented in the kind of laws that were passed. I didn't think that my demographics ever showed up on the radar, with the things that we were thinking about, talking about.
  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, When Women Rule: Nigerian lawmaker fears violence is scaring women away from politics, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 October 2017.
• I was a double minority. I was young and I was a woman...but I felt there was a gap. "I think it was the lure of that ... that got me interested in politics.
  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, When Women Rule: Nigerian lawmaker fears violence is scaring women away from politics, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 October 2017.
• He (her father) was absolutely supportive. He watched me for three years, my teething years. Every time there was something about me in the news, he would buy all the papers.
  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, When Women Rule: Nigerian lawmaker fears violence is scaring women away from politics, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 October 2017.
• I would say that my greatest achievement in my dichotomous world is the ability to run a home and a career while challenging the narrative of the typical Nigerian female politician.
  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, When Women Rule: Nigerian lawmaker fears violence is scaring women away from politics, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 October 2017.