By Tunde Opalana
Professor Stella Effah-Attoe, National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has challenged its female folks to take advantage of the various gender-friendly policies of the political grouping to present themselves for elective positions and be counted in the Nigerian political leadership space.
The party asked women to only purchase their Expression of Interest Forms with a token while making the very expensive Nomination Forms to all PDP women free of charge. Effah-Attoe urged PDP women to rise up to the occasion by stepping out within the remaining four days to acquire their Expression of Interest Forms and their Nomination forms for the various elective positions at the state and national levels.
The deadline for forms collection was extended by one week and it closes on Friday, 8th April.
The National Women Leader said: “it is one thing that the PDP has created the enabling environment for women to participate in Nigerian Politics, it is another thing for PDP women to take advantage of this positive gesture.
Therefore, I urge all eligible PDP women to pick up their Expression of Interest Forms and the Nomination Forms without further delay.
“It will interest our women to know, as announced earlier by the National Working Committee (NWC), that the PDP is maintaining the status quo to support women. Women are only required to purchase their Expression of Interest Forms with a token. The Nomination Form which is expensive, is to be acquired by women at no cost, that is, it goes for.
“This is to encourage as many women as possible to participate in the electoral process with a view to winning elections into States Houses of Assembly, the House of Representatives, the Senate, Governorship positions and the Presidency.
“You would recall that the deadline for the purchase of Expression of Interest Forms and Nomination Forms was on the 1st of April, 2022. The National Working Committee has graciously extended the deadline to the 8th of April, 2022, The Trumpet gathered.
“I hereby encourage more PDP women to step forward and take advantage of this extension, to acquire their forms.
The more eligible women we have coming out to acquire their forms will determine the number of women (whether large or small), that will take part in party primaries.
“In like manner, the number of women that participate in the party primaries will determine the percentage of women (whether large or small), that would eventually emerge as party candidates.
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“The attainment of the 35% Affirmative Action in PDP begins from somewhere. In this case, it begins from the acquisition of the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms”.
She implored all PDP women to hit the ground running in carrying out consultations, mobilization, voter education and building support groups for themselves and for the party at their various polling units, wards, local government areas and states, because election is won from the grassroots.
