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The wife of governor of Kaduna State, Asia Ahmed El-Rufai has called on women to be the support their counterparts need to contribute their quota to nation building.
The governor’s wife who was speaking yesterday at an empowerment and mentorship event in Abuja noted that are the mothers of the leaders of tomorrow and so must ensure that they raise children that would move the society forward.
“I am able to stand today and achieve all that I have achieved because women supported me, so, we should support each other.
“Some of us are meant to be governors, president and all that, some are also meant to be chief executive officers but that does not mean that we cannot be friends because you have a higher position,” she said.
Earlier Mrs Munira Suleiman, the Convener, Glam Empowerment and Mentorship Programme, speaking on the event said that it would create an avenue for women of diverse social, religious and cultural backgrounds to come together to discuss issues affecting their growth in the society.
Suleiman said that this month’s edition of the event was organised to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day.
“I would say to the younger ones that you need to know what you want and what you are getting yourself into.
“You need somebody who knows who you are, what you are and what you intend to be in the future,” she said.
Mrs Stella Okotete, National Women Leader, Caretaker Committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC),, noted that the party was working on empowering women to occupy political positions in the country.
We have a lobby group for the women and so, we hope that by the grace of God, in 2023, we would have nothing less than 108 women, representing Nigerian women in the National Assembly.
“We would also have good number of women in the Federal Executive Council and also heading government parastatals agencies.
“You know when you give a woman a job, she delivers on it and the nation would move forward,” she said.
