From Charity Nwakaudu, Abuja
The Women Minister Pauline Tallen has appealed with the incoming administration to involve more women in governance.
Tallen made this plead in Abuja yesterday while speaking at a prayer session organized by a women intercessory group, Proclaim Nigeria.
She stressed that women have paid their dues by going out to vote and that the only way to secure a peaceful and prosperous Nigeria is by engaging more in the forthcoming administration.
“Nigeria women should remain strong in all that they do to support our leaders.I want to urge the incoming president who is a gender friendly person to engage more women in governance.. Women constitute more than fifty percent of the population and it is women that came out to vote. Women have paid their dues in Nigeria. I want the incoming government to ensure that they engage more women both in the national state and the local level. Engaging more women is the easiest way to a peaceful and prosperous Nigeria, she said.
Speaking on the incoming administration,she said it is a divine arrangement and that Nigerians should learn how to pray for their leaders.
“For us to have Bola Tinubu and his running mate is a divine mandate. It is God that chooses leaders and I believe God has special task for Nigeria for bringing these two great men to be the president and vice president of Nigeria.
I urge all Nigerians to stand with them in prayers because the best you can do for your leaders is to support them with prayers. We don’t have any other country but Nigeria and when women gather like this to pray, something positive must happen.
Nigerian women are lefting their voices to pray that peace and unity will be restored to Nigeria,that Nigerians will look at themselves as brothers and sisters irrespective of tribe and religion. I believe that prayers changes things and I stand with Proclaim Nigeria to proclaim a united, peaceful Nigeria and also to proclaim a Nigeria where everybody will feel happy to be a Nigerian. We want a Nigeria where leaders will respect everybody and support everyone.
National Coordinator of the group, Amb. Gift Muoneke on her part said Nigerian women are out to pray for God to restore the country and that would be a continuous event.” It is an interfaith prayer by Nigerian women for the restoration of the land because when women cry to God,there is always a positive change and I want to urge Nigerians to keep praying for the country because that is the only weapon we have.”