By Stanley Onyekwere
No fewer than 250 indigent women from different communities across Nyanya/Karu ward of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), have received cash donations, to help boost their businesses and support their families.
Presenting the gifts to beneficiaries in Abuja over the weekend, the Zonal Secretary, North Central, of the All Progressives Congress, Hon Yakubu Muhammed Adamu, said the global economic crisis calls for more intervention for women, as they are more likely to transfer the benefits to their families.
Adamu, who explained that the initiative is an annual project of his wife, which started nine years ago, noted that it has so far supported over a thousand vulnerable women and widows in the Nyanya/Karu ward, empowering them with entrepreneurial capita and skills that can enable them become self reliant.
He lauded the qualities of the APC Senatorial candidate for FCT, Hon. Angulu Dobi, said the 2 time chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council and former Secretary of the FCT Transport Secretariat, is a seasoned and committed grassroot politician who will contribute to the success of the party in the forthcoming election.
Also, some political heavyweights from the APC who graced the event, urged the beneficiaries to make good use of the money to expand their businesses while supporting their families.
In her remarks, the FCT Minister of State Dr Ramatu Aliyu, commended Hon. Adamu for the initiative to empower women whom she recognised as critical to political victory.
The minister, who was represented by her Special Assistant on Political Matters, Abubakar Adenike, used the opportunity to call on women to support the party in the forthcoming general elections.
Similarly, the Chairman of the FCT chapter of APC, Hon Abdulmalik Usman, commended the Zonal Secretary and his wife for the laudable project which he said is reflective of the humane ad Progressives nature of the APC.
He urged participants and beneficiaries to ensure victory of the APC at the national assembly, pledging that the APC candidates will push for laws that will allow for more seats for the FCT in the national assembly.
“The opposition has been in the national assembly for years now, but how many laws have they sponsored asking for more seats for FCT residents or even mayoral seat for Abuja? They are just there for their own personal interest. With the APC at the Senate and House of Representatives, I assure you that we will get more slots at the national assembly and push for mayoral position for Abuja.”
Not left out, Senior Special Assistant to FCT Minister on Community Relations, Hon. Yamawo Tanko, who commended the Yakubu’s for the initiative, said it inspire him and others to replicate same in their respective communities, thereby reducing poverty in the Territory.
He also used the occasion to other stakeholders to contribute towards reducing poverty, through touching the lives of the downtrodden around them.
On his part, the Senatorial candidate of the APC seeking to occupy the FCT lone-seat at the Nigerian Senate, in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Hon. Angulu Dobi, described the gesture as a laudable intervention that would help improve the welfare of the people of FCT.
Dobi, however, stressed that it will not longer be business as usual where the opposition sits tight at the red chamber.
