For Nigerian women to be more involved in government at the national level, the National Assembly must create more laws that favour women.
An aspirant from Cross River state vying for the position of the National Women Leader of the Nigerian governing party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mrs. Helen Effiom, stated this while speaking with journalists at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
She recently picked her Nomination and Expression of Interest form to contest in the party’s National Convention scheduled to hold on March 26.
Mrs. Effiom, who chanted the slogan “no woman no nation,” said any woman who can run her home could handle any problematic situation.
“If the opportunity is given to women, we know what we can do for our nation. The constitution provides for 35%, but I know that His Excellency Ben Ayade has been doing a lot for women; we have a lot of council chairmen that are women, we have lots of appointees that are women.
“From my state, there are many women in power, but I think it does not stop at the state, it goes beyond that. I want to appeal to the National Assembly to give women a chance because I know that as a woman if you can run a home successfully, you can run any difficult assignment,” Effiom said.
She said she was contesting to represent women at the grassroots and give them a voice.
“The essence I joined politics is to represent those that cannot stand out and defend themselves.
“I will make the women at the grassroots to be heard; that’s the main reason for me coming out. They are many of them shying away from politics because of the intrigues of politics, and there are so many of them that are not bold enough, so few of us should be able to stand up for the women at the grassroots,” she said.
The Women Leader Aspirant said that if elected, she would mobilise women to ensure they vote APC into office in 2023.
E/Suzan O.
