The lawmaker representing Lagos Central senatorial district at the National Assembly, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to show magnanimity by appointing many women into his new cabinet.<\/p>\n
She lamented that the National Assembly was gradually turning into an \u201cexclusive gentlemen\u2019s club\u201d.<\/p>\n
Tinubu linked the apathy amongst women in running for elective political positions to a number of reasons.<\/p>\n
She stated this yesterday in Abuja at an event that also had the presence of the First Lady, Aisha Buhari.<\/p>\n
She said, \u201cWe are still watching and hoping that maybe, the President will be magnanimous enough to appoint a lot of female ministers but they should be ministers who will not disappoint us and do the work; not to go there and embezzle money.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know the last experience was not actually pleasant, it should be women who are ready to serve and make the necessary sacrifice.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo we need women in the public place? Yes, that is why I am here to encourage the younger generation to reach for the sky.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has always been seven or eight women in the National Assembly, the National Assembly is turning into exclusively a gentleman\u2019s club and I think that if we are not careful, that is what it will turn out to be and it is quite sad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think they are being good sportsmen; they are quite vicious when it comes to positions; everybody is striving and I think we women have to start raising boys that are gender-friendly. We raised all these selfish men and this is what we pay for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coming generation should begin to raise men that would not feel threatened by a woman who is in a top position, so we still have a lot to do but the current men that are here are very vicious when it comes to seeking for top positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot that they don\u2019t allow women, it is just that everyone is striving so hard and you can see that the violence in politics is keeping women back, there are a lot of things keeping women back but the point is that the men are not just gender-friendly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just looking when we went for registration today and I was just looking because it was just a sea of men.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The lawmaker representing Lagos Central senatorial district at the National Assembly, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to show magnanimity by appointing many women into his new cabinet. She lamented that the National Assembly was gradually turning into an \u201cexclusive gentlemen\u2019s club\u201d. Tinubu linked the apathy amongst women in running for elective political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[287,37,97,158,235],"class_list":["post-11596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-assembly","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-buhari","tag-presidency","tag-president"],"yoast_head":"\n