We will implement 2005 National Gender Policy — Buhari

Flag-bearerof All Progressives Party, APC, General Mohammadu Buhari, retd, has promised to involve as many women as possible in his administration, if voted into power. He made this pledge as the Director General for the Buhari /Osibanjo Campaign organization and Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi yesterday hosted Nigerian women to atown hall meeting in Lagos.He decried the present situation where women appointees in government were neither fully representative nor had made an impact in the administration. According to him, there will be no limit to the number of female appointees as long as they are capable.Twenty years after Beijing, women in Nigeria have not fully benefited from the promises made by government at the conference. There is still discrimination against women in public institutions and in the private sphere.“As a father to a number of beautiful and promising young women, I should know what it means to want the very best for my daughters. “I do not expect my daughters to live unfulfilled lives with their talents wasted or ignored and rendered second class citizens.” The APC flag-bearer assured of the implementation of the 2005 National Gender Policy. He said: “Nigerian women have been promised for so long. I will not take your votes for granted.”