About the first female speaker in Oyo state.

United Kingdom based Immigration officer and lawyer, Hadjia Monsurat Sunmonu. Sunmonu, who holds an LLB intermediate of the London University , was, before her election, an astute member of Oyo Defender

Union-UK, a town union in the Diaspora which supports development projects in Oyo Township , her native place of birth.

She said she decided to join politics after witnessing the adverse effect of government’s neglect of infrastructure – fatal accidents on road, while on a trip home. “So, on getting back, I told myself, why don’t we get involved in governance to positively affect our people” she told Daily Sun.
The former immigration officer is bringing the benefit of her overseas exposure to bear on governance. She says she was heading for the house “to assist underprivileged people, small business people and get employment for the youths”. Also to concern her are the cardinal manifesto of her party, ACN – vis: free education, infrastructure provision, agricultural development and environmental sanitation.