The Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund has accused the All Progressive Congress (APC) of short-changing a woman candidate in its elections to the National Executive Council.
This was contained in a statement yesterday by the organisation. It said it was alarmed by the allegations that despite the best efforts of Hajia Zuwaira Sani Bakori (Kaduna APC) to contest for the position of Deputy National Organizing Secretary at the just concluded national convention, her candidature and election was deliberately frustrated by irregularities.
“It is a dangerous precedent that APC is setting where of all the 46 positions on its national executive council only 8 are women and ALL this 8 are holding ‘woman leader’ positions,” the statement said. “It is a shame that one of the few women determined enough to serve and who did not automatically go for a position reserved for women should be treated in this manner.”
The NGO therefore call on the party to address the injustice in which the said position is currently mired.
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