Politics
THE National Gender Policy has been flagrantly disregarded by all political parties in the country, the minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has said.
Tallen stated this at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Forum in Abuja.
The minister faulted the political parties’ nomination of candidates, leaving out women, describing it as a negation of the National Gender Policy.
She said it was wrong for the political parties to toe the path of patriarchy in their nomination of candidates.
The Minister cited the case in Adamawa, where the election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate in Adamawa, Sen. Aishatu Ahmad, popularly known as Binani, was nullified by a court.
She said the action by the court was unacceptable, and that women would fight until Ahmad’s mandate was restored.
NAN reports that Ahmad, the senator representing Adamawa Central, had at the state’s APC governorship primary held in May, beaten her closest rival Nuhu Ribadu, the former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, to clinch the ticket.
However, a Federal High Court in Yola, had in a judgment delivered on Oct. 14, nullified Ahmad’s election and declared that there would be no governorship candidate for the APC in Adamawa.
Tallen, who condemned the nullification of the only woman in the country’s governorship race, expressed the commitment of the ministry to advocate for more space for women.
She therefore, urged the court to reverse the decision..
The also used the opportunity to call on women in the country, to vote for all women contesting for elective posts in the 2023 General Elections. (NAN)
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