The Honorable Minister of Women Affairs, Barr Uju Kennedy Ohanenye, has emerged the winner of the maiden edition of an online poll put together by an Ireland based newspaper, The Street Journal.
The award was formally presented to the Minister in her office by management of the media outfit led by the Publisher, Mogaji Bowale Arisekola who described the award as deserving especially in view of the landmark initiatives made by the Minister to promote the interest of women and vulnerable children since she assumed office in August this year.
Barr Uju came tops in the keenly contested poll, which had four other Ministers contending for the ‘Super Minister’ of the month award. She polled 190,848 votes (45.74%) to emerge the clear winner with Senator Dave Umahi, a former Governor of Ebonyi State now Minister for Works trailing closely behind by polling 171,137 votes (41.02%).
Other Ministers who were part of the poll are Dr Betta Edu, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation who came third. She polled 22,505 votes (5.39%) and was followed by the Minister of Interior, Bunmi Ojo who polled 21,204 votes (5.08%).
Reacting to the result of the poll, the publisher of The Street Journal newspaper, Mogaji Bowale Arisekola who stated that the exercise will be sustained, congratulated the Minister for emerging winner of the inaugural online poll which he said was put together as his own contribution to national development and as a means of spurring the Ministers to be outstanding in their duties and align with the Renewed Hope agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reposition all sectors of the nation’s economy in the interest of all Nigerians.
In his words “The poll is credible, cannot be manipulated or influenced. The poll was designed in such a way that the votes counted, and one can see how the votes were cast. There was transparency and your emergence as winner cannot be far-fetched especially in view of some bold steps you took recently to fight the cause of women. Nigerians voted massively for you” he said.
Speaking further, he added “No doubt, Kennedy polled the highest number of votes for being the Minister with the most drive since President Bola Tinubu inaugurated his cabinet and for demonstrating exemplary dedication to the cause of women and the girl child by ensuring that the rights of women and children are not trampled on.
This can be seen in the way and manner she moved swiftly to tackle the case of the female one chance victim who wasn’t given prompt medical attention at the Maitama General Hospital, Abuja, leading to her death. She has also been seen to demonstrate humility and a listening ear while handling the recent sexual harassment case at the University of Calabar, two virtues that have become very rare among government officials. This and many more reasons, is why she emerged the winner of the poll” he concluded.
In her acceptance speech, Barr Uju thanked the organizers for the initiative of using the poll as yardstick to measure and engender service delivery among the serving Ministers and urged the media to partner with her Ministry in the on-going drive to change the status of Nigerian women and the vulnerable children  “ I want you to join us in the fight to ensure that majority of the funds that come from donors do not go into advocacy and travels but to make positive impact on those women and children they are meant for like 30%  and 70%  to advocacy and women respectively” she said.
She added that the award will only spur her to do more to justify the opportunity given to her by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to change the narrative concerning the present status of Nigerian women and vulnerable children.

Yeye

This same woman that wants to sue everything, including UN

The woman who wants our little children to work in factories 🏭