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Women in the Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress have called on the party leadership to reserve the offices of deputy governor and Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly for qualified female members ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The appeal was made in Ilorin on Wednesday by a former House of Representatives aspirant on the APC platform, Mopelola Bashir, after the conclusion of the party’s National Assembly primaries.
She argued that although no woman emerged as the party’s candidate for the National Assembly, the APC still has an opportunity to reinforce its reputation as a champion of gender inclusion by supporting female candidates for the two key state positions.
Mopelola praised Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for what she described as his consistent commitment to empowering women, saying his administration had transformed Kwara into a national reference point for inclusive governance through the appointment of women to strategic positions.
