Ireti Kingibe

Ireti Heebah Kingibe (born 2 June 1954) is a Nigerian civil engineer and politician. She was elected member of the senate representing the FCT in the 2023 Nigerian Senate elections under the Labour Party. She is a younger sister of Ajoke Muhammed, the wife of former Nigerian head of state Murtala Muhammed.

Early life and education Kingibe's education started at Emotan Preparatory School in 1966, after which she attended Queen's College Lagos from 1966 to 1967 and Washington Irving High School from 1970 to 1973 for her secondary school education. She bagged a degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Career Kingibe started her career as a quality control engineer with Bradley Precast Concrete Inc. from 1978 to 1979. She then moved on to work with the Minnesota Department of Transportation Design unit, where she also worked as an engineer from 1979 to 1991. She returned to Nigeria for her one-year mandatory service year between 1981 and 1982. She was posted to work as a project supervisor with the Nigerian Air Force base in Ikeja, Lagos.

Politics Kingibe's political career began in 1990 with her appointment as adviser to the national chairman of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP). In 2015 she ran for the senatorial seat under APC, but she later withdrew.

Kingibe joined the Labour Party in 2022, became its FCT senatorial candidate, and won the 2023 Nigerian Senate election. Before the elections, she pledged her basic salary (if she should win) to a special fund to tackle infrastructural deficits in the rural communities within the nation's capital.

She was named the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Women Affairs in the 10th Senate on 8 August 2023. She also claimed that there was an alleged move to rig her out of the election and that the Gwarinpa collation centre was attacked by thugs who destroyed the result sheets.