Some Nigerian women on Friday pushed for the seat of Vice President of Nigeria to be reserved for women in subsequent elections in the country.
Women, under the platform of the Nigerian Female Parliamentarians, made the demand when they paid a courtesy call on President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Speaking on behalf of the delegation, which comprises of elected lawmakers from the nation’s 36 states, Elizabeth Ativie said Nigerian Women are being marginalized by their male counterparts.
She said the country only had one principal officer in each of the two chambers of the National Assembly since the return to democracy in 1999.
She also said that as the President, anything he said at the gathering “will become policy and subsequently law”.
She said: “Whenever the president is a man, the vice president should be a woman”.
Mrs. Ativie also said for every…
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