Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has met with the All Progressives Congress (APC) women leaders from the 36 states of the federation ahead of the 2019 general election.
The meeting was also attended by the wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Dolapo, the APC deputy national women leader, Tina Adike; the wife of the governor of Sokoto State, Maryam Mairo Tambuwal, among others.
In a statement, the director of information in the office of the wife of the president, Sulaiman Haruna, said the party’s women leaders were on a courtesy visit to Aisha Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa.
Speaking at the meeting, Mrs Buhari charged the APC women leaders to rally members to encourage candidates with capacity for leadership and integrity to contest for elective positions.
She also bemoaned the low participation of women in decision making in the country and urged them to participate in politics to make it easy to actualize the 35 percent affirmative action.
The First Lady called on the women leaders to continue to support the activities of the party, saying all the empowerment and medical outreach programmes she undertook through her Future Assured programme were aimed at complementing party’s manifesto.
Also speaking, Mrs. Osinbajo hailed the unity among the women leaders, urging them to continue to show good examples by managing the affairs of women in their states well.
