Kashim Shettima, a vice presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general election of 2023, has promised that if won in that year, he and his principal Bola Tinubu will lead a government that is favorable to women.
If elected president the following year, he claims that the Tinubu-led administration will prioritize women’s education and fight against gender violence in addition to advancing women’s inclusion.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Shettima promised women what his candidacy would do if elected during an event on Tuesday that was put on by the Voice of Women organization to look at what plans the candidates for president had for women if they were elected.
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Shettima reaffirmed his principal’s intentions to give women’s inclusion a high priority in his administration and recalled how Tinubu was the first governor in Nigeria to appoint a female deputy.
The APC vice presidential candidate said “the estimated measure of assessing any society is the way they treat their women. In 2023, we are not preparing for the Olympics, but an institution that relies on the superiority of ideas and tracks records to show.
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was the first Governor in Nigeria to appoint a woman as Deputy Governor. When he finished his two-term as Governor of Lagos State, he was given the opportunity to come to the Senate but he declined and rather sent a woman.
“Twelve years ago, when I became the Governor of Borno State, I appointed five women Commissioners, that means 25 per cent of my cabinet were women,” he noted.
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“An Asiwaju administration will be a government that will be friendly to the women, importantly, they are the backbone of our society, they constitute over 50 per cent of our total population.
“If Nigeria is to reach its full potential, we must give everyone a fair chance to make their best contribution to the well-being and betterment of our nation, the growth of our economy and the achievement of our nation rest on equity and the safeguarding of the fundamental human rights and decency in our society.
“Equity and fairness to women will be a top priority of the Tinubu’s administration. We shall establish the following programmes and policies.
“We will promote more female inclusion in politics and governance. Social inclusion and political empowerment, economic empowerment whereby commercial banks would be compelled to support women in businesses nationwide.
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“We will fight domestic violence and abuse, educational priority and helping the most disadvantaged in our society,” Shettima noted.
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