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SGF Wives  Energize Themselves In The Blouse Of Funmi Kuti, Queen Idia And Moremi, Agitating For Power Shift 

 

The Oasis Reporters

 

 

May 18, 2022

 

 

By Greg Abolo

 

 

Southern governors wives softly mount the platform of heroines to agitate against political suppression of the south

 

 

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (left), presenting a souvenir to the Chairperson, Southern Governors Wives’ Forum (SGWF) and the wife of Osun State Governor, Mrs. Kafayat Oyetola, during a courtesy visit by members of the SGWF, at the Government House, in Benin City, on Thursday, April 28, 2022.

 

 

 

 

L-R: Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu; Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel; Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; his wife, Betsy, and Chairman, Southern Governors Wives’ Forum (SGWF) and wife of Osun State Governor, Mrs. Kafayat Oyetola, during a visit by members of the forum, at the Government House, in Benin City, on Thursday, April 28, 2022

 

 

 

 

A gift for you, daughter of heroine Emotan’, Governor Godwin Obaseki seems to be saying to Engr. (Mrs.) Tamunominini Makinde of Oyo State. Governor Makinde’s mother was born in Benin-City.

 

L-R: Financial Secretary, Southern Governors Wives’ Forum (SGWF) and wife of Ogun State Governor, Mrs. Bamidele Abiodun; wife of Delta State Governor, Dame Edith Okowa; Mrs. Nkechi Caroline Ikpeazu of Abia State; wife of Oyo State Governor, Mrs. Olufunke Makinde; Bayelsa State First Lady, Mrs. Gloria Duoye Diri; Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; his wife, Betsy; Chairperson, SGWF, Mrs. Kafayat Oyetola; Nigeria Governors’ Wives Forum Chairperson, Mrs. Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi; Mrs. Martha Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, and the wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, during a courtesy visit by members of SGWF at the Government House, Benin City, on Thursday, April 28, 2022.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

When political watchers looked at Nigeria’s coastline, they noticed a bevy of dainty beauties energizing themselves and lifting their boat. Women are now saying that they can’t be pall rice anymore, eaten only when there’s no other choice.

 

 

 

Yet their deployed energy is not for the liberation of womenfolk this time, but to fight for political equality between the north and south.

 

Southern governors, for the first time in Nigeria’s political history defied all odds to unify themselves from East to West, including the South South, be on the same page with each other and say “enough is enough”, the presidency of Nigeria must move to the South in the 2023 forthcoming presidential election.

 

Significant concerns have been expressed about the events of the 2019 political elections, where southern governors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in one accord conceded the right to contest the presidential election to the north in keeping with the spirit of the party’s constitution.

 

Consequently, the lot fell on former decampees of the party who had just ported back, after joining hands with the All Progressive Congress (APC) to severely bruise the PDP and teach former president Goodluck Jonathan a lesson and a crushing defeat.

 

Southerners who stayed back loyally in the party, gradually rebuilding it swallowed their pride and let the returnees take the shot.

 

With former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as presidential candidate against Muhammadu Buhari, both of them, northerners and Muslims, Atiku lost, since in any contest, there’d be one winner only.

 

Four years after, it is now the eminent turn of the political South. 

 

But no, prominent PDP northern members who ran four years ago are saying no, the PDP Constitution must be jettisoned to allow them run again, and since they have vast financial chest and a mirror of millions of largely Hausa voters to choose them that are mainly of the Fulani ruling class, thus they must run again, fair or otherwise.

 

Listening through the kitchen door, the Amazonian wives of the Southern governors in one accord and across Party or religious lines, quietly came together to put pressure.

 

Despite the fact that Southern Nigeria has more of PDP governors who incidentally are all Christians like their wives, they, the women chose Alhaja Kafayat Oyetola (a Muslim of Osun State) as their chairlady. She and her husband are members of the All Progressive Congress (APC). 

 

You should have seen how the Southern governors wives feted her in Benin-City during a sporting event for girls some months back. That was the first inkling to The Oasis Reporters that something was about to happen. A unity song for all South was being sung.

 

 Wife of Ogun State Governor, Mrs. Bamidele Abiodun is the Financial Secretary of Southern Governors Wives’ Forum (SGWF).

 

The wives already know that powerful northern politicians would dangle carrots before some of their husbands in other to break ranks and usher in a back to back eight plus eight years of Fulani presidency, so the wives are sleeping tight with their husbands to hear all the talk from the discussions on the pillow and go to work, like Queen Idia, Moremi, Margaret Ekpo, Aba Women Riot leader, Mrs Azikiwe, Funmilayo Kuti etc.

 

This time, they mean it. Prayers are being said to avoid the swallowing of second class positions by their husbands.

 

Even the wives of Middle Belt governors are silently praying in their closets or family altars. They know that even if power shifts to the north, their husbands would not be deemed worthy to be president. For most of them are minorities in both religions. Powers that be, use them to make up their numbers and keep them relegated, weakened and oppressed. Nigeria must be free and belong to all Nigerians, irrespective of tribe, religion, gender or culture.

 

That is their plaintive cry.

 

 

 

Greg Abolo

Blogger at The Oasis Reporters.

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