Barely 16 days to the governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a former female lawmaker, Hon. Mulikat Abiola, has joined the gubernatorial contest of the party and picked a nomination form.
Abiola, who represented Ifelodun State Constituency in the Osun State House of Assembly between 2018 and 2023, picked the ticket and vowed to unseat the incumbent governor and restore the lost glory of the state.
While speaking with The Nation on Thursday, she hinged her decision to pick the APC form on gross marginalisation of women in the political space, saying, “it is time to give women a better chance in the Osun political space.”
The parliamentarian cum academician who decried poor inclusion of women in politics said it is time to raise women’s consciousness and emancipation to active politics.
She said, “I just obtained the APC governorship nomination form now at the party’s national secretariat to prove my readiness to contest the forthcoming gubernatorial election. Osun is our common patrimony, not for a section of people.
“This is the time to have a female Governor at the helm of affairs of our dear state. Enough is enough; this is the time for women to take their rightful position. Enough of marginalisation and human exclusion.”
She continued, “My informed decision is to raise the consciousness of our people, particularly the womenfolk, to the need to lead the state. I am prepared to restore the lost glory of our people in the political space of our dear state. It is no longer news that women have been marginalised and they have been treated as second fiddle.
“I am not perturbed by antics and rhetoric from whoever has picked the form, all I know is that I am confident to win the party primary and governorship election come August 2026″, Hon. Abiola said.
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