Women and youths in the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Abuja have been urged to demonstrate their commitment to nation’s building, by embarking on a door-to-door campaign for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in next month general election to enable him consolidate on the laudable projects he started.
This call was made during a stakeholders meeting of the FCT All Progressives Congress (APC) Women and Youth Town Hall meeting in Abuja, Nigeria.
Speaking at the event, the former Deputy Governor of Plateau state, Mrs. Paulen Tallen, who represented the Wife of Nigeria President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari strongly called on women especially the youths to ensure that their vote is count as part of the collective quest for next level of development in the society.
While urging the women to be prayerful and resolute to ensure peaceful elections, she said gone are the days when money is shared to women during elections to persuade voters would not work.
She stressed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s legacy so far is unprecedented, therefore the need to support him to take the developmental strides to the next level.
She therefore urged FCT women and youths to embark on a door-to-door campaign, so as to ensure that from top to bottom it’s APC candidates who get to be elected.
Active Participation
Also speaking, FCT Minister, Malam Muhamad Musa Bello, explained that women and youths remain very critical to the development of the society, hence the need for them to actively participate in the process of electing their leaders in the FCT and country at large.
The minister opined that it is the duty of stakeholders to support Buhari who has finished laying the foundation that is ready for the building to start from the 17th of February after the elections.
Also, the FCT APC Women leader, Mrs Hailmary Aipoh, noted that 52 per cent of women are voters, hence the need to engage them in the process.
She disclosed that no fewer than 2,000 women and 500 youths were mobilised to the town hall meeting, from the six Area Councils of the FCT.
“We are gathered to enlighten the women and to reassure them that their vote is important and should come amass to vote for the FCT minister has done perfectly well.
“Look at infrastructures, he is a silent operator, he is excited when it comes to women matter, because he knows that the women are the people that really vote. We leaving a legacy for our children’s children,” she said
The meeting was all about women clamouring and soliciting for vote for president Buhari/Osinbajo and all APC candidates in the FCT during the next month’s general election.
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