The executive governor of Kwara State, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in a show of his unalloyed loyalty to the All Progressive Congress (APC) will today join the bandwagon his fellow Governors and the party creme de creme for the official flag off of the Governorship Campaign in neighbouring Kogi State.
The governor who was recently adjudged the most performing Governor in the country’s North Central Region, AbdulRazaq was recently nominated among the APC Governors to superintend the re-election campaign of his brother-governor in Kogi, Governor Yahya Bello.
The party had recently constituted a 56-member National Campaign Council to prosecute the Kogi election.
This came following a resounding national ovations which have greeted AbdulRazaq’s progressive policies in Kwara State, including the nomination of nine women, or 56.25% of total cabinet pick, as commissioner-nominees.
The More Women Group, an body of at least 169 women bodies across Nigeria, had on Friday published a statement commending AbdulRazaq for setting the for more youth and women representation in Nigerian polity.
A joint press release by Dr Abiola Akiyode Afolabi and Ms Felicia Onibon on behalf of the group noted that “this gesture will be recorded in history as the first of its kind in Nigeria….The appointment demonstrates his support for women voices and serves as a recognition of their relevance in the society.”
The More Women Group has over the years identified itself as a mouthpiece for women, including female professionals and experts representing different regions, ethnicities, economic, social and political allegiances as well as organisations for youths and persons with disabilities.
The group disclosed “modelling a best practice of this nature is important for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We therefore applaud the first SHERO Governor for breaking the cycle of women’s exclusion in Nigeria. We applaud the All Progressives Congress (APC) for supporting this development in the state and call on all other state Governors to imbibe the culture of equitable representation for better and prosperous governance.”
