•As Woman Leader promises massive vote for party’s candidates in 2023
By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday inaugurated its Women Campaign Council in Abuja with the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar describing women as the most loyal party members.
Atiku, while speaking after the inauguration of the PDP Women Campaign Council by the party’s National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, pointed out that nobody can afford to joke with issues concerning the women.
The PDP presidential candidate explained that it was because of the importance attached to women matters, that made PDP, while in power between 1999 and 2015, to put many women in top positions.
According to him, “Women are the most loyal party members, that was why in PDP, we went to great length to make sure that we encourage women and we support women to participate actively in our democratic process and nation building.
“When I was Vice-President, I travelled to a country in Europe called Sweden. The government was headed by a woman Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs was a woman.
“When I look at my delegation, it was all men and I was embarrassed. I then committed myself to making sure that as long as I remain in politics I will promote the advancement of women. “Therefore, we had no hesitations whatsoever in between 1999 and 2015 to make sure, at the very minimal ,we complied with the Beijin Declaration”, he stated.
The National Woman Leader of PDP, Prof (Mrs) Stella Effah-Attoe, while speaking at event, promised that the
Women Campaign Council will serve as the bedrock and biggest chunk of geometric mobilizers of the Nigerian electorate to vote massively for Atiku.
According to Effah-Attoe, “This Women Campaign Council will serve as the bedrock and biggest chunk of geometric mobilizers of the Nigerian electorate to vote massively for our presidential candidates and for all PDP candidates in every position in Nigeria.
“Let me reassure you that our unalloyed solidarity and commitment towards the success of our great party in the 2023 general elections are unwavering.
“The PDP women are ready, our strategies and approaches are top notch and clear cuts.
“We will campaign and mobilize from every home, family, pooling units, wards, local government, state and even the FCT to garner all the votes that will be needed to make our party coast home to victory in a landslide manner.
“There is no gainsaying the fact that women form the largest chunk of the population of Nigerians voters” she said.
Inaugurating the Women Campaign Council, Dr Iyorchia Ayu said that the PDP’s decision to accord
special place to women was in recognizing them as partners in progress, “realizing that if you have women on your size, the party will be a big and gigantic family”
He added, “I always wonder at the capacity of a woman to not only work hard but to be resilient and to do so many things in one day. I think if a man works for eight hours a day, woman works for 16 hours a day.
“The management skill of a woman is second to none. I believe that without a woman, there can be no nation.
“That is why it is said that if you educate a woman, you educate a nation. If you empower a woman, you are empowering a nation”, Ayu declared.
