After her secondary education, she proceeded to the College of Arts and Science, Zaria for her A levels and thereafter went to Ahmadu Bello University in 1979, where she studies Law and obtained her LL.B.
She is currently the chair of the board of Pilot Finance Ltd.[5] She forayed into politics in 1998 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
In 2011, she contested for Speaker of the House of Representatives and became the first woman to hold the position of Majority Leader at Federal Legislative level.
[6] In May 2022, she decamped from PDP to Social Democratic Party to vie for the ticket of the Oyo North senatorial district.
The minister of Youth and Sports Development, Chief Sunday Dare warned that nothing untoward must happen to her and called on governor Seyi Makinde to treat the matter with all seriousness and ensure all-round protection for her.