‘Why Senator Jummai should become Taraba’s first female governor’ Category: Sunday politics Published on Sunday, 30 November 2014 05:00 Written by Muideen Olaniyi Hits: 41 Mr Nura Mahmoud Dantsoho 0 Comments A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and an aspirant, who wants to represent Jalingo 1 Constituency in the Taraba State House of Assembly, Mr Nura Mahmoud Dantsoho, has explained the reason why Senator Jummai Alhassan should be supported to become Governor on the APC platform in his home State. Dantsoho, who spoke during an interview in Abuja, described Senator Alhassan as a strong woman with a strong character, whose knowledge on the workings of the judiciary and legislature would create a robust functional relationship among the three tiers of government. He said, “The APC will be coming in to provide the right leadership to Taraba State. Majority of those in the drama about PDP governorship tussles with endorsements and counter aspirations have been largely men. I am afraid to say that some of these our very senior men have failed to provide the right leadership that should inspire those of us in the younger generation. “Some of them have proved to be extremely concerned mainly about themselves and if you look at all the indices of backwardness, Taraba State has been a leader in the northeast whether in terms of maternal and infant mortality, poverty, poor access to water, education and what have you and in the final analysis, women and the youths have been at the receiving end, this is why we need a strong woman with a strong character, someone like Senator Jummai Alhassan to be elected Governor of Taraba State on the APC platform by 2015. “We need functional and patriotic cooperation for Taraba State to move forward. The beauty of women is that they are generally very passionate about what they do. This is the reason why they are among the best human and material resources managers in the world. It takes a lot of efficiency for a woman of 35 years to manage ten children in some cases added to her husband, in-laws and extended family. As a mother, Senator Jummai has gone through the difficulties of child birth, she knows the problem of women of Taraba State who are dying of child birth due to prolonged labour that arises from poor access to affordable and quality ante natal health care. She knows what infant mortality means and how painful it is when a woman carries pregnancy for months and looses the child merely due to poor access to ante natal and post natal healthcare; poor access to neo-natal health and child diseases management. “As a wife, she knows the problems of men who toil day and night under harsh welfare conditions to meet the needs of their families. She knows how men toil to get money to take their children to private schools because public schools are simply no go areas for anyone who seeks good future for his children in Taraba State. We need Senator Jummai and I think the APC has got that tradition of giving women a chance. “In the whole of Nigeria, the South-West is about the only geo-political zone where women are largely deputy governors and it is the APC that currently provides that unique platform in the South-West and the APC will be making history when it spreads that revolution to the northeast by making Senator Jummai Alhassan the candidate of the APC ahead of the governorship elections in Taraba State and I can assure you that the rest will be history, Senator Jummai will be Nigeria’s first elected female Governor and she will be a wonderful leader that Taraba people deserve.” On his political aspiration, Dantsoho said if elected, one of the first legislative duties to pursue was to lobby his colleagues and the executive to put in place Taraba State Community-Based Commission for Protection of Education, Health and Economic Rights of Women. On the political development in Taraba State, he advised that the new acting governor ought to have been sworn in as a substantive governor to enable the ailing Governor Danbaba Danfulani Suntai fully faced his medical treatment.
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