The continuous marginalization of women in the Nigerian political space is detrimental to efforts to grow a stable democratic nation.
This view was expressed at a one-day sensitisation and enlightenment meeting in Kaduna, to encourage women to contest for elective positions in the 2023 General Elections.
According to speakers at the sensitisation meeting of women contestants in the 2023 elections, women in positions of leadership across the globe have shown competence, hence any nation that fails to recognize their capacity is doomed to fail.
The women believed that they have the number to change the narrative, and therefore, advised women contesting in the 2023 elections to be courageous.
The group said the only way women can succeed in the 2023 general elections is for women to support each other.
The hope of Nigerian women for greater political space may have been dimmed after National Assembly rejected Affirmative Action clauses in the Constitutional Amendment of the Electoral Act 2022.
The gender bills rejected by the parliament were the Affirmative Action Bill, to ensure 35 per cent positions for women,
the bill on Ministerial or commissioners’ nomination, as well as the reserved seat bill to create additional seats for women at the National and States Assemblies.
( Editor, Omor Bazuaye)
