The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday said the country would go 30 years backward should President Muhammadu Buhari lose next year’s presidential election.
The party urged women across the country to play critical roles in the change mantra of the APC to enable President Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to consolidate on the mandate that produced them to rescue the nation from retrogressing 30 years backward, if power should return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The party called on women to be more involved in politics and governance, even as he lauded President’s giant strides in agriculture, mass employment, anti-corruption fight, infrastructural development and quality healthcare delivery.
The South- South Zonal Women Leader of All Progressives Congress, Dr. Rachael Akpabio, supported by a former Commissioner for Education and a chieftain of the party in Delta State, Dr. Veronica Ogbuagu, assured the people that workable solutions had been proffered to the problems confronting the party which emanated from its primary elections.
Oguagu, who spoke at the inaugural meeting of South-South Zone States’ Women Leaders of the party in Warri yesterday, on “Inbuilt capacity of women to drive the change mantra of the Federal Government,” listed the inbuilt capacities in women in politics to include intuition, loyalty, responsibility, power to create against all odds and persistence.
According to Dr. Akpabio, if President Buhari had not saved Nigeria from economic quagmire which PDP plunged it into for 16 years, after the former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and ex-CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, warned against the looming economic recession, the country would have collapsed.
She said the President displayed deft strategy to block all financial leakages in the system by appointing Hadiza Bala Ahmed as Managing Director of the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) and two other women as Ministers of Finance and Environment respectively.
