Adamawa APC women decry exclusion of female candidates from House of Assembly contest 

Leaders of the Adamawa Women successful Politics, National Council of Women Societies, and the Special Reserved Seats for Women groups person accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of excluding women from candidates for the State House of Assembly.

The women leaders, briefing newsmen successful Yola, said the exclusion of six women who contested for the assembly seats from assorted constituencies is unacceptable.

The Coordinator of Adamawa State Women successful Politics, Comfort Ibrahim, expressed dismay implicit the result of the APC superior for the assembly, lamenting that nary pistillate is among them, which signals a worse concern than the existent Assembly that has 1 pistillate arsenic member.

“We person 1 pistillate lawmaker astatine the assembly present and hoped for much women but the reverse is the lawsuit arsenic nary azygous pistillate emerged arsenic a campaigner among those who contested successful the APC primary,” Comfort Ibrahim said.

According to her, the improvement is simply a bittersweet setback to the corporate aspirations for inclusive governance, antiauthoritarian fairness, and sex equilibrium representation.

She added that the lack of pistillate candidates raises concerns astir the committedness of ideology to sex equity, f...