Man becomes youngest winner of a political office at 22, what he has done for his community will wow you
- A gentleman named Abubakar Jamiu Thioumbianu became the youngest assemblyman in his area at age 22
- Abubakar Jamiu Thioumbianu won the seat for the first time when he was still at the Bawku Presbyterian Nursing Training College
- He won again in 2020 and has been undertaking amazing developmental projects in the Bawku Electoral Area
Abubakar Jamiu Thioumbianu from the West Natinga Bawku Electoral Area in the Upper East Region of Ghana is the young assemblyman in the area.
Information obtained directly from the 29-year-old indicated that he became an assemblyman for the first time when he was only 22 and in college.
After he graduated from the Bawku Presbyterian Nursing Training College, the gentleman ran for office again after his first victory in 2014 and got reelected in 2020.
Source: UGC
Although he is still in his 20s, Abubakar Jamiu Thioumbianu has undertaken groundbreaking developmental projects to improve the state of living in his area.
One among those projects is T-Bin an improvised bin to help solve the sanitation problem in Jamiu's area.
"I have used the Kufour "gallon" and designed it so we could discard plastic waste in it. We're working on getting tricycle to empty it on a regular base, hoping that someday we will reduce plastic waste drastically in the area."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that a 12-year-old got special recognition in maths in the United Kingdom.
A 12-year-old Chika Ofili, a UK-based Nigerian, has really made the nation proud as he did what many his age could not achieve.
He won an award at the TruLittle Hero award in 2019 for discovering a new way to divide in mathematics. The young mathematician genius' new formula created new divisibility by seven in mathematics.
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