The ruling All Progressives Congress APC, has finalised plans to kick off its campaigns on Monday with the launch of its Women Presidential Campaign Team.
APC through the organizing committee of the Tinubu/Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team, announced the ceremonial inauguration of members of its various committees will happen on Monday, at the Presidential Villa.
Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, was last week announced as the grand patron of the women’s wing of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Team.
Wife of the Presidential Candidate, Oluremi Tinubu, a three-term senator representing Lagos Central and former First Lady of Lagos State, and that of the vice-presidential candidate, former First Lady of Borno State, Nana Shettima, would serve as chairman and co-Chairman respectively.
The introduction of the women’s campaign team has generated enthusiastic reactions from around the country, with many Nigerians wondering why other parties are not making comparable efforts regarding gender mainstreaming in their respective presidential campaigns.
Others have remarked that the APC’s women’s campaign team, consisting over 1,200 women chosen from around the country, further bolsters the party’s gender-sensitive credentials as the APC is also the only major political party to field a female gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 election cycle.
Party insiders said the women’s campaign team will enjoy a degree of autonomy and plan its own programmes, and that there will be activities at the national, zonal and state levels.
“Efforts are also reportedly ongoing to rally the thousands of women-focused support groups affiliated with the APC for a nationwide mass mobilization project,” the source claimed.