As the 2019 general elections approach, the wife of the
president, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, Monday met with the All
Progressives Congress women leaders from the 36 states of the federation.
The meeting was attended by the wife of the vice
president, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo; the APC deputy national women
leader, Chief Tina Adike; the wife of the governor of Sokoto State, Mrs.
Maryam Mairo Tambuwal, among others.
Mrs Buhari called on the APC women leaders to
rally members to encourage candidates with capacity for leadership and
integrity to contest for elective positions.
A statement by the director of information in
the office of the wife of the president, Sulaiman Haruna, said the party's
women leaders were on a courtesy visit to Mrs Buhari at the Aso Rock
Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Mrs. Buhari, according to the statement,
lamented low participation of women in decision making in the country and
urged them to participate in politics to make it easy to actualize the 35
percent affirmative action.
She described women's role as an important
determinant of development in any administration.
She said the unity exhibited by the women
leaders over the years had encouraged her. “It is this unity that has led you to come up
with a forum to speak with one voice” she stated.
She expressed optimism that such unity would
endure "at the state level and at the grassroots."
Mrs Buhari also urged the women leaders
to continue to support the activities of the party, saying all the empowerment
and medical outreach programmes she undertook through her Future Assured
programme were aimed at complementing party's manifesto and ensuring more
inclusion and economic empowerment of women.
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