2023: Aisha Buhari asks APC to sign pact on plans for Nigerian women

Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, has urged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to sign a pact with Nigerian women to show the party’s policies for them.

She spoke on Monday at the inauguration of the Tinubu/Shettima women presidential campaign team in Abuja.

The first lady hailed the party for recognising the importance of women and youth as vital to its success in the 2023 elections.

Aisha, however, decried the decrease in the participation of women in elective positions, particularly in the legislative arm of government.

She called on the party’s leadership to sign a pact with women which would spell out its intention for women.

“It’s often said that politics is war by another means. While men are on the forefront line in the conduct of war, women are foot soldiers at the electoral battlefield,” she said.

“Our party APC has always been proactive, visionary and inclusive in its choice of candidates. This time a professional and frontline politician with a track record of achievement has produced Bola Ahmed Tinubu as our flagbearer with another professional, Sen Kashim Shettima as his running mate.

“Indeed, the first step to succeed has been taken by the choice of candidates. Our party has also done well to recognise the importance of women and youth who form a majority of the electorate by involving them in the entire campaign movement.

“Your excellencies, permit me to voice out our concern for the progressive decline in the involvement and participation of women in elective and appointive positions across the three tiers of government.

“Our clamour and cries over the years have remained unattended to, especially at the legislative arm of government.

“For this reason, our movement has no option but to ask the party leadership to sign a pact with Nigerian women, that will spell out the good policies of the party towards women for documentation.”