A former chairperson of the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission, SIECOM, Hannatu Binniyat, has decried the lack of women participation in elective positions in the country’s elections.
With the forthcoming council elections in Kaduna State in October, this year, she said women should stand out in their numbers to contest in the chairmanship and councillors election.
Speaking in Kaduna on Tuesday at a Women’s stakeholders meeting on “Advance: Women political participation project in Nigeria”, she said, “We women need to re-strategise our stand for us to have more women in elective positions in the coming council elections in the state.
“We need to build strategy, build relationships and work as a family irrespective of any differences because politics is a game of numbers and looking at the number of women, if we work as a family, women contesting elective positions will definitely carry the day.”
Earlier, the Program Specialist, UN Women, Chundung Ashley Dauda, explained that the programme is meant to ensure the promotion of women through economic empowerment.
She added, “It is also meant to promote women’s leadership and security that will go a long way to promote women in leadership as one of the ways of sustaining women’s development in any society.”
According to her, significant representation of women in leadership led to fast development, lamenting that Nigeria is far behind in women’s leadership positions.
She called on women to take a definite stand, especially in Kaduna State with the coming council elections to ensure more women are elected into various council positions.
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