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.