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Nigeria: 2015 - Abiola's Daughter Advocates Better Deal for Women

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Nigeria: 2015 - Abiola's Daughter Advocates Better Deal for Women

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As Nigeria looks ahead to the 2015 elections, leading political parties have been urged to encourage more women to run for elective positions by removing barriers impeding their effective participation in politics.

Making this call monday, the daughter of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Abiola, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, bemoaned that Nigerian women have been worst hit by political discrimination and bad planning since independence.

Abiola-Costello, in a statement to mark the 17th anniversary of the assassination of her mother, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, said: "More than the other sex, women in Nigeria have borne the brunt of the hollow political pact that the post-colonial state has been able to fashion out with the Nigerian people.

 

We invite our users to read the complete article published June 4th 2013

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As Nigeria looks ahead to the 2015 elections, leading political parties have been urged to encourage more women to run for elective positions by removing barriers impeding their effective participation in politics.

Making this call monday, the daughter of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Abiola, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, bemoaned that Nigerian women have been worst hit by political discrimination and bad planning since independence.

Abiola-Costello, in a statement to mark the 17th anniversary of the assassination of her mother, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, said: "More than the other sex, women in Nigeria have borne the brunt of the hollow political pact that the post-colonial state has been able to fashion out with the Nigerian people.

 

We invite our users to read the complete article published June 4th 2013

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