ASABA – Women from the 25 local government areas of Delta State yesterday drummed support for the candidates of the Labour Party in next year’s general elections.

The Deputy Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party, Prof. Nwabogo Umukoro who stated this after Delta Women’s one million rally for the Labour Party in Asaba, Delta State, said the current ruling party is not gender sensitive.

Umukoro, a professor of Semiotics and Performance Studies, said the rally was to send signals that it was time for women to take charge of affairs in the state.

According to Nwabogo, ” What I mean by that is that for a very long time, we have always had male leadership with men as governor and deputy, but we women, perhaps we have been sleeping; we have woken from our slumber, and we are saying enough is enough.

For next year’s election, we must have the number two position. This is not the first of its kind; we have so many states that produced female deputy governors, and we have never done so in Delta State.

“We want to make history; we want to show that Delta women have capacity also. The fact that we have not come out all this while is perhaps we have been at home learning the ropes, and we have learnt the ropes enough. And we want to come out”.

She maintained that the party has dominated political offices of the state since 1999 has fielded a woman for a Deputy Governor saying they prefer to give women small offices to occupy.

Hence, she insisted that 2023 is the appropriate time to politically liberate women and give them prime places in the governance of the state.

She described her principal and the party’s governorship candidate, Mr. Ken Pela, as gender friendly, noting that her plans for Delta women would be realised should the party win the governorship election.

While she expressed certainty over the victory of the party in the upcoming Presidential elections, she said it was time to move Delta from a consuming to Producing state.

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Hmmm. For Okowa state oh!

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