The Conference of Civil Society of Nigeria (CCSN) has called on candidates and political parties to pick women as their running mates for the 2023 presidential election.
The CSOs stated this yesterday during a press conference in Abuja, added that of all the political parties, none has a woman as presidential standard bearer for the 2023 General Elections.
The CCSN chairperson, Comrade Adams Otakwu, lamented that less than five percent of gubernatorial candidates are women, while over 95 percent are men.
He further added that less than 10 percent of candidates for the federal parliament are women while over 90 percent are men, adding that less than 20 percent of candidates for state parliaments are women, while over 80 percent are men.
“To continue to exclude women from our political governance system because they belong to the sex that wears skirts, is simply and squarely a voluntary suicide mission on our part.
It is against this background that we strongly advocate…
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