By Christian Njoku
Mrs Titi Abubakar, Wife of the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, says her husband would implement the much-debated 60 per cent affirmative action for women if voted into power.
Abubakar made this known while addressing women groups at a town hall meeting held in Calabar on Monday prior to the commencement of the presidential campaign rally.
She said Atiku Abubakar was contesting to be the president of Nigeria to bring socio-economic development to the citizens which would bail the nation out of its present economic predicaments.
She said if elected her husband would introduce micro-credit schemes for women and youths as the administration would inject 10 million dollars into empowerment programmes.
“During his time as the vice president I piloted the Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF) and we provided scholarships to indigent students and skill acquisition training for interested Nigerians,” She said.
“Today the initiative had metamorphosed into a National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and if the opportunity offers itself again we would consolidate on the earlier gains so far recorded”.
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While calling on the women to vote for PDP on Feb. 25, general elections she promised to provide scholarships to 50 Cross River students who performed well in the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, examination JAMB.
Mrs Abubakar used the occasion to receive hundreds of women who defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress APC to the PDP.
Mrs Stalla Effah-Attoe National Women of the party said Cross River is a PDP state, adding that they had never voted for any other party aside from the PDP.
She explained that the state governor, Ben Ayade won his elections twice under the platform of the PDP, adding that a similar scenario would repeat itself in the 2023 elections.
On her part, Mrs Obioma Imoke, wife of the former governor of Cross River Sen Liyel Imoke called on the women to massively vote for the PDP
She stressed that their Permanent Voter cards were their weapons to change a bad government.
She noted that when Atiku was heading Nigeria’s Economic Team under President Olusegun Obasanjo he facilitated the introduction of mobile telephones to Nigeria.
According to her Atiku has demonstrated his capacity to lead, so, women should vote for performance and not mediocrity.
(NAN)
