Politics
AS 2018 Osun State governorship election is drawing nearer, an Osun women group under the aegis of Obokun Women Forum, OWF, has pledged its support to retired Justice Olamide Folahanmi Oloyede, the deputy-governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, calling on the women folks across the length and breadth of the state to rally round the courageous retired jurist.
The women forum gave the charge through Agboola Taiwo, its leader, during an interactive session with the ADC deputy-governorship candidate on a familiarisation tour of the Obokun local government area of the state, assuring Oloyede of their support to her aspiration by promising to mobilise the women and voting aged children across the local government for the party.
In a statement issued by Oloyede’s Media office and copies were made available to newsmen on Wednesday, August 22, Agboola decried the low participation of women in politics, advising the women in the state to throw their weight behind the ADC in the forthcoming governorship election.
She, therefore, advocated for more women participation in politics so as to avoid being marginalised in the decision making process in the State and Nigeria at large.
According to the forum, she maintained that Women and Youths would responsible for the victory of any political party in the forthcoming guber election, explaining that the Forum would work assiduously with the Oloyede to ensure the thirty-five percent (35%) achievement affirmative action for women in the next political dispensation.
She urged the women in the area to commence the House to House campaign for the success of the ADC, praising the party for their forty percent (40%) affirmative for women in its constitution, urging the party leadership to always respect the Constitution of the party.
In her remarks, Oloyede assured the women of all inclusive administration if herself and Fatai Akinade Akinbade, her principal, are elected into the office comes September 22nd,2018 ,promised to ensure the forty percent (40%) affirmative for women in their administration as being stipulated by the ADC’s constitution.
Oloyede expressed her readiness to continue champion the course of vulnerable women and youths after being elected into the office of the deputy-governor of the state, observing that since 1999, the representation of women in politics had declined instead of increasing and she also promised to use her position to reverse the trend through the democratic enlightenment programmes.
She then advised the women in the state to ensure the well-being of their children by giving them moral and sound educational training, maintaining that only education is the legacy a parent could bequeath their children.
– Aug. 24, 2018 @ 15:25 GMT |
Tags: ADC Guber race: Osun Women group pledges support for Oloyede
