{"id":261998,"date":"2023-04-12T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=261998"},"modified":"2023-04-12T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:55:27","slug":"first-female-rep-elect-joins-speakership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/04\/12\/first-female-rep-elect-joins-speakership-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Imo Rep. joins Speakership race"},"content":{"rendered":"

A member-elect of the House of Representatives, Miriam Onuoha, has joined the race for the Office of Speaker in the coming 10th National Assembly.<\/p>\n

The current member of the House officially declared her speakership ambition at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Onuoha, who is representing Onuimo\/Isiala Mbano\/Okigwe Federal Constituency in Imo State on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, is the first female to openly declare a bid for the office.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker, who has been reelected for a second term in the House, is the second member from the South-East geopolitical zone to have joined the race, after Benjamin Kalu from Abia State who is Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs.<\/p>\n

At the conference, Onuoha was accompanied by two serving male members of the House, Messrs Abdulkadir Abdullahi (APC\/Bauchi) and Emeka Chinedu (PDP\/Imo) as well as several fresh members-elect and members of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.<\/p>\n

In her address titled \u2018The Unity House,\u2019 Onuoha noted that the 10th Assembly \u201cpromises to be a watershed of some sort for Nigeria\u2019s fledgling democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmaker also stated that Nigeria needs \u201ca nationalist and a dynamic team player to stem the tide of our dwindling economy<\/a> and the much-needed dividends to Nigerians \u2013 a service-driven leader who understands citizens\u2019 participation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Onuoha said, \u201cThe emergency of the dwindling number of women in parliament calls for deliberate action, an action that will bridge the gender gap; an action that is a call for the leadership of the National Assembly to embrace the stance for a woman of competence and experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honourably call for my fellow contestants to support me, a woman with competence, integrity and full of vision. No doubt, our President-elect, His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is a he-for-she who has always empowered women in all spheres of life, having picked a woman as his running mate as the Governor of Lagos state and supported his amiable wife to become a senator in the parliament, in line with the goals of the UN\u2019s 35 per cent Affirmative Action for women.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this effect, my election as the Speaker House of Representatives will, therefore, afford Nigeria the rare opportunity of killing the two ubiquitous birds of gender balancing and youth inclusiveness in its political\/leadership landscape, with one stone.<\/p>\n

\u201cTruthfully, I Princess Miriam amply represent the twin-engine essence of Nigeria\u2019s youth and female status quo, whom the circumstances of our political exigencies have made an endangered and vulnerable species.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmaker added that the issue of regional balancing in the nation\u2019s leadership equation is also \u201canother veritable national challenge that my election to the speakership of the House of Representatives will address and resolve simultaneously in the interest of national unity, peace and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aspirants for the Office of the Speaker in the 10th Assembly, some of whom have yet to officially declare their ambitions, are now over 10.<\/p>\n

They include the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase; embattled Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa; Chairman of the House Committee on Navy, Yusuf Gagdi; Chairman, of House Committee on Appropriations, Aliyu Betara; Chairman, House Committee on Science Research Institutes, Olaide Akinremi; Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Benjamin Kalu; and Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Land Transport, Tajudeen Abbas; Chairman of the House Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, Abdulraheem Olawuyi; Chairman, House Committee on Water Resources, Sada Soli; Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Defence, Makki Yalleman; and Sani Jaji.<\/p>\n

Wase and Gagdi are from Plateau in the North-Central geopolitical zone; Ado-Doguwa, Kano, North-West; Betara, Borno, North-East; Akinremi, Oyo, South-West; Kalu, Abia, South-East; Yalleman, Jigawa, North-West; Jaji, Zamfara, North-West; Soli, Katsina, North-West; Olawuyi, Kwara, North-Central; Abbas, Kaduna, North-West; and Onuoha, Imo, South-East.<\/p>\n

The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is from Lagos in the South-West, while the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, is from Borno State in the North-East.<\/p>\n

The APC is now left to consider National Assembly leadership positions for the remaining zones: North-West, North-Central, South-South and South-East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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