Youth empowerment and girl-child education will be a priority if the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Bola Tinubu is elected in 2023.
The wife of Mr. Tinubu, Senator Oluremi Tinubu stated this at the North-East Zonal flag-off of the Tinubu/Shettima Women Campaign which was held at the Sports Centre in Maiduguri, Borno State.
While thanking women and youths for showing their support by showing up for the campaign, Senator Tinubu promised to work together with the wife of the APC vice-presidential candidate, Hajiya Nana Shettima, if their husbands are elected in 2023.
“I want to particularly recognize the efforts of our youth today. Coming out today despite this being the women’s campaign is very encouraging for us and I can assure you that Hajiya Nana Shettima and I will work together as a team” she said.
The wife of the APC Presidential Candidate added that youth empowerment and girl-child education will be key focus areas of the Tinubu/Shettima administration.
“I can assure you that youth unemployment will be on the front burner of the Tinubu/Shettima administration. Also, women empowerment and the education of the girl-child because before you can empower a woman, the woman has to have a form of education and education is very key to the growth of our women, not only in the Northeast; but in the country as a whole.
Because when you educate one woman, you’ve really done well for the entire household, not to speak of the entire nation”, Senator Tinubu said.
She further pledged to provide the needed support and care for women of the Northeast.
“Earlier today, we were at the governor’s office to pay him a courtesy visit and there, we were able to realize that the women of the Northeast will need a lot more tender loving care. They need our assistance and I can assure you and promise you that we will be there.”
The event, which was hosted by the wife of the Borno state governor and North-East zonal coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team, Dr. Falmata Zulum, also had in attendance the wife of the APC vice-presidential candidate and former first lady of Borno State, Hajiya Nana Shettima; and wives of other APC governors from Kogi, Plateau, Kebbi, Lagos and Cross-River states.
The Deputy National Women Leader of the APC, Hajia Zainab Ibrahim and many high-profile women within the party were also present.
The North-East zonal rally is the fifth in the series of women’s rallies so far held by the women’s wing of the APC presidential campaign since its inauguration in October 2022.
Olusola Akintonde
