Use your numerical advantage to gain elective office – Gov. Abiodun

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has advised Nigerian women to take advantage of their numerical strength to contest for elective positions. 

Governor Abiodun who gave the advice while receiving a group of people involved in activism against gender-based violence, led by his wife, Bamidele, urged the women not to allow themselves to be relegated.

While noting that the Violence against Persons Prohibition Act had been domesticated in the state, Governor Abiodun said the Child’s Right Protection Law had also been passed by the Ogun State House of Assembly, adding that the Sexual Assault Referral Center had been commissioned in Sagamu.

Earlier, the wife of the governor Mrs. Bamidele Abiodun who said the group was against violence in any form, pointed out that the girl-child and women, as well as the boy-child and men, should be protected in the society.

Also, an activist, Dr. Mojisola Akinsanya, while stressing the need to address poverty among the downtrodden as a way of reducing violence, solicited more women’s participation in governance.

Bolanle Adesida