The Vice president of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) southeast Zone has commended Nigerian women, particularly in the zone for their great awareness and participation in elections, urging them to vote credible candidates that mean well to people.
In a press release issued on Friday by the office of the vice president and signed by Comrade Chibota Edozie to commemorate this year’s International Women’s day, She noted that more women participated in the 2019 general elections than they used to, stressing that voter education and mobilisation by NAWOJ and other NGOs helped a lot in ensuring that they came out in large number.
On the theme of this year’s International Women’s day “Balance for Better” she said that NAWOJ was poised to reduce global gap between men and women in various issues like politics, career opportunity, governance and building of good homes.
She also commended the Governors wives in the South East for their concern on improving the well- being of women in their zones particularly the down- trodden women in the society.
According to her, the wives of Anambra and Ebonyi State Governors, tried tremendously with their pet projects by providing shelters for more than 1000 widows, while Enugu state Governor’s wife provided 100 percent medical care for women and children.
Comrade Edozie urged women to take the issue of their health seriously, stressing that breast cancer was on increase now and appealed to them to avail themselves of the opportunity offered by some organisations that run free cancer tests to ascertain their status.
She also promised that NAWOJ in the zone will soon organise seminar/ workshop for women, this will help to galvanise women into the mainstream of politics in the South east and called on well-meaning individuals, organizations to support the proposed seminar.
The Vice-president used the occasion to express gratitude to the people for voting some women into elective positions and commended the elected women for their efforts in participating in the general election, calling on them to remember to use their positions to uplift the lives of women in the zone generally.
