Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, has urged political parties to consider gender quota system to increase women’s participation in politics.
Alhassan made the call when she visited the Chairman, National Caretaker Committee, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Monday.
She said that allocating quota to women in party leadership positions and in other strategic activities was important in raising women participation in Nigeria’s politics from its current low level.
She said that building on constitutional provision of equality regardless of sex, Nigeria through political parties could seriously consider adopting the “Voluntary Electoral Party Gender Quota System’’.
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