When you think of a woman who would always defend children against the invasion of the proverbial hungry hawk, Senator Daisy Danjuma comes to the mind most especially for the role she played in the protection of children as the Chairman ECOWAS Parliament’s Women and Children’s Rights Committee and Senate Committee Chairman on Women Affairs and Youth Development at the senate.
She was fierce, outspoken, intelligent and glamorous. Whenever it’s her turn to speak on the floor of the red chambers, silence would engulf that if you dropped a pin you would hear it drop. Anything that comes from her mouth is filled with words of wisdom.
In a few months’ time, she will turn 65, it can be said that being advanced in age has not taken a toll on her beauty as she is grandly gliding to the septuagenarian club.
Interestingly, Danjuma, the Executive Vice Chairman, South Atlantic Petroleum, who still commands deep respect from young and old, tells whoever cares to listen that she is still in tune with the modern trends in the fashion world. She is a showstopper any day, any time. Danjuma, a Law graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, began her career as a State Counsel in the Lagos State Ministry of Justice (Department of Public Prosecutions). She was a pioneer legal counsel to the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria before working for the investment bank, Nigerian Acceptances Ltd. (NAL). She spent the next decade as Company Secretary/Legal Adviser to the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) before moving into private practice.
Her numerous political followers and her admirers are quite worried about why she has recoiled into her shell leaving the social scene. She often attends social events again even before Covid-19, she has slowed down on her public appearance. Sources said; “She is taking things easy. She is now focusing on other things and her philanthropic project alongside her husband. She has attended enough social events in the past its time to retire and channel that energy on some other productive things. She spends more time at her home facing business and other things. She might celebrate her 69th birthday in August; if she does not because of the pandemic, she will be throwing a grand soiree when she clocks 70 next year. She is not silent; she just channeled her energy into other things.”
