Gender Friendly Ken Pela Gets A Boost To Govt House, As Delta Women March For Peter Obi, Labour Party
The Oasis Reporters
December 13, 2022
The dynamics of Delta State gubernatorial politics took a further twist as women from the 25 local government areas of Delta State drummed support for the candidates of the Labour Party in next year’s general elections.
Women are perceived to constitute more than half of the voting populace in Delta State, going by several indications despite the unavailability of official data from the INEC state office in Asaba.
“This is the appropriate time to politically liberate women by giving them prime places in the governance of the state”, Nwakego Odinakachi told our correspondent in Asaba, Delta State as the women of the state commenced a rally tagged “One Million Women March” for Labour Party on Saturday, December 10th, 2023 in the state capital.
Led by the state deputy governorship candidate of the party, Prof. (Mrs.) Julie Nwabogo Umukoro, the women affirmed their support for the party, saying that Labour Party was more gender friendly.
Nwabogo Umukoro, a professor of Semiotics and Performance Studies, said the rally was to send signals that it was time for women to take charge of affairs in the state.
“And what I mean by that is that for a very long time, we have always had male leadership with men as governor and deputy, but we women, perhaps we have been sleeping; we have woken from our slumber, and we are saying enough is enough.
“And that at the next election, we must have the number two position. This is not the first of its kind; we have so many states that produced female deputy governors, and we have never done so in Delta State.
“We want to make history; we want to show that Delta women have capacity also. The fact that we have not come out all this while is perhaps we have been at home learning the ropes, and we have learnt the ropes enough. And we want to come out,” she said.
She described her principal and the party’s governorship candidate, Mr. Ken Pela, as gender friendly, noting that her plans for Delta women would be realised should the party win the governorship election.
“Labour Party in Delta State is the only political party that has broken ranks with the rest of the political parties in insisting that women in Delta State shall no longer be pall rice, eaten only when there’s no other choice.
They must come and join the men folk as equal partners in the governance of our dear state”, Labour Party governorship candidate, Ken Pela Kawhariebie told us on the phone from Delta.
