IWD: Appoint more women in governance , Alhaja Gidado appeals to Ayiedatiwa as she felicitates Women
As Nigeria joins the rest of the World to celebrate the 2024 International Women’s Day, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress APC, in Akure Alhaja Hon. F. I Gidado (The Iya Adinni of Akure Kingdom ), has felicitated with Nigerian women appealing to the Ondo state Governor, Hon. Lucky Ayiedatiwa to appoint more women in governance.
The Chieftain felicitated with the women in a statement she signed and made available to the public in Akure.
Alhaja Gidado who described women as home makers and moulders of the society, applauded the State Governor, Hon Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa on his various initiatives targeted at transforming the state.
She charged the Governor, to implement the 35 percent affirmative action for women, involving women in all governance processes, which she said would further promote gender equality, fairness, and inclusion.
Speaking on the 2024 theme, “Invest in women: Accelerate Progress,”, she noted, that it expresses the importance of gender equality, women’s and girls’ empowerment, and their rights to healthier lives, noting that women’s exceptional contributions across various fields of endeavour is golden and immeasurable.
She charged women to be more focused on building a morally and an upright society as she enjoined mothers to give adequate training that would guide them towards becoming future leaders.
Alhaja Gidado condemned the situation where mothers allow computer, iPad and social media to take over the training of the little ones, which often mislead them into watching and viewing immoral scenes that could influence them to the wrong path.
According to her; “The training in iPad and other social media would only turn the children to computer children, create time for your children so that you will enjoy them at your old age.
“We are Africans, and we value morals and integrity is our watchword. Yahoo and Internet fraud shouldn’t be our children’s solution to poverty”, she counseled.
Alhaja Gidado condemned violence against women and called on government at all levels to make and implement the laws criminalizing all acts capable of dehumanizing women and the girl-child like rape, modern slave trade and other means of child abuse.
