Atiku to women: Use your numerical strength to unseat Buhari

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has appealed to Nigerian women to use their numerical strength to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari.

Speaking at a women’s conference in Abuja yesterday, Atiku said he promised women 35 percent of the appointment slots in his government if elected because of their numerical strength and pattern of voting during elections.

“Between youths and women you have 70 per cent of the government. This is to prepare you to take over governance, to take over this country and make it work again.

“This is your opportunity, your are not going to be put in the other room, I promise you because you have seen my wives here, they are not in the other room.

“In my three decades of politics, the most consistent voters in the Nigerian political process I have seen are women. I have practically seen it when we used to vote on queues not through ballot papers. If I stand as a candidate and I turn my back to look at the lines that are supporting me, the women’s lines are always three times that of the men,” Atiku said.

The PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, said there would be crisis in the country if fails to conduct a free, fair, transparent and credible elections.

The Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization and senate president, Bukola Saraki, said women were naturally gifted to carry out a cause to its logical conclusion and charged them to campaign vigorously for the PDP to relcaim power.