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Akeredolu pledges a women-friendly government

By Editor
02 November 2016   |   1:56 am
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has promised to give women prominent role if he wins the election.
Rotimi Akeredolu

Rotimi Akeredolu

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has promised to give women prominent role if he wins the election.

He spoke yesterday at the party’s secretariat in Akure, the state capital, when he addressed women leaders from wards and local councils.

The candidate pledged to respect the country’s 35 per cent affirmative plan for women.He, however, urged those who are drifting to other political parties to return to the APC.

Akeredolu told the women that, as founding leaders of the party, they couldn’t afford to go to other parties as strangers.He said: “We have one united party and we cannot afford to go to a party that has no family anywhere in the country. We have a party that controls the centre, including the states in the southwest.”

The Secretary of the Directorate of Women Affairs on the Akeredolu Campaign Platform (ACP), Mrs. Yetunde Adeyanju, said she was convinced that women would have a better life under the leadership of the candidate.

She added that Akeredolu had superior programmes that would change the lives of women in the state.Adeyanju, a former commissioner under Governor Olusegun Mimiko, implored other women still serving as special assistants and senior special assistants in the existing administration to resign.

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