By Princess-Ekwi Ajide – Abuja
Women have been asked to take up political positions as the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will give free Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to female aspirants in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
The party’s National Women leader, Dr Betta Edu, who said this at a news conference in Abuja noted the decision was taken to encourage capable women in the party who wanted to seek elective offices but lacked the finance.
She thanked members of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) for supporting the decision, adding that it showed that the party and its leadership are gender sensitive and poised to mainstream APC women and appealed to Nigerian women to join the APC as the largest party in the country to benefit from the latest gesture.
Dr. Edu commended the party leadership especially the wife of the president Mrs. Aisha Buhari for doing a lot to mainstream women generally describing her as a mother with conscience who had performed exceptionally well to give women a sense of belonging in the party.
She added that APC women stand for inclusion and mainstreaming of women in national politics and that the party has shown this by approving that women will be running on a free nomination form in the party.
According to her, in the past there were capable women who say they cannot afford the forms, they are vulnerable, and unable but now, have been given the platform with the greatest chance of emerging as a winner of an election, because they will be running on the ticket of the ruling party that has performed and gender sensitive.
The APC woman leader charged women to sensitise themselves on the need to get their Personal Voter Cards (PVC) from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), rise up and take the challenge by coming out to be actively involved informing that the party is going into series of processes that would lead up to the 2023 general elections.
