Women mobilise grassroots help for President Bola Tinubu, writes RONKE BELLO
In what was unequivocally a real “show of force” Nigeria girls particularly members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) drawn from all of the 36 states of Nigeria and the FCT shut down Abuja on Monday fifth October, 2026 for the APC Women Stakeholders Mobilization and Empowerment Summit held underneath the theme “Renewed Hope Agenda 2.0: From Reforms to Prosperity”.
As convened by Nigeria’s amiable First Lady Oluremi Tinubu and arranged by the APC Presidential Campaign Council’s Women Mobilisation Directorate led by Dr. Betta Edu (a former APC National Women Leader) whose power and simple resolve in placing Nigerian girls first is outstanding, alongside Nigeria’s dynamic and hardworking Minister of Women Affairs Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim whose simple ardour and conviction on gender empowerment, inclusion, equality, girls’s rights, defending susceptible teams, and advancing girls’s management got here to the fore.
The First Lady was as common supported on the occasion by Nana Kashim Shettima. As witnessed, Nigeria’s First Lady has been the flagbearer for Nigerian girls. She was at her greatest drumming up the wanted push as Nigeria inches near the National Gender Policy (NGP 2006) 35% affirmative motion for girls in governance.
She made it clear that ladies should be supported in any respect ranges and arms of presidency from the grassroot to the nationwide and from the legislature to the chief. Her presence amongst Nigerian girls standing shoulder to shoulder, singing, dancing and above all reaffirming our gender’s greatness was a defining second on the occasion. She, certainly as a former legislator has the magic contact in politics and mobilization which is a big plus for any political occasion.
The males additionally confirmed up in a present of solidarity. Their formidable workforce to the occasion was led by the Director General of the APC PCC, Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari.
The summit which goals to mobilize grassroots help for the 2027 common elections, focusing on 40 million votes for President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima had different highlights which had been the inauguration of the Women Directorate of The APC PCC. The collapse of all girls marketing campaign teams into one and above all it supplied an enormous alternative for the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) a non-profit basis led by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, geared toward enhancing household welfare throughout the nation’s 774 native authorities areas to current their rating card within the areas of Economic Empowerment, Social Investment & Education, Health & Agriculture, Employment, and so forth., to Nigerian girls.
In certainly one of my editions of “Currency of Hope” revealed in main nationwide dailies on the twenty seventh of January, 2006 I requested “APC, Where Are The Women?” For certainly, girls be it the grassroot politicians or the technocrats in politics had been grossly omitted of formations of many earlier APC committees and excessive – levelled appointments. This latest occasion staged by the ladies and for the ladies has put to a “temporary” relaxation to that query.
Nigerian girls are definitely coming of age drawing power from many educational analysis works particularly that of The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2023) revealed after the final common elections that asserts that “whereas males have barely extra registered voters (round 52.5%) in comparison with girls (round 47.5%) in Nigeria, research and observations recommend girls usually present larger turnout and engagement within the precise act of voting, collaborating extra actively in elections than males.
Also, embedding the phrases of Hillary Clinton that “There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives and are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.”
The former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in her personal phrases additional declares that “Our society needs women to be more numerous in decision-making positions and in entrepreneurial areas” and based on Melinda Gates,“In the developing world, it’s about time that women are on the agenda.” We should not cease drumming up these insightful quotes to energy.
Nigeria girls, the APC girls certainly, grew to become the agenda and solely agenda on the “Renewed Hope Agenda 2.0: From Reforms to Prosperity Summit in Abuja.As the APC Women Presidential Campaign Council prepares to hit the roads main to each village, city, geographical zones of Nigeria the message is obvious and loud; Nigerian girls are current and able to take part in offering a affluent nation state now and for generations unborn with the One Voice, One Movement, One Choice, One Mandate Movement.
Bello, Ph.D, is a tutorial, public coverage analyst, publicist and creator.
