Promote competence, Olujimi advises gender promoters, says APC beatable at 2022 guber poll

The Senator representing Ekiti South in the National Assembly, Biodun Olujimi, has cautioned those promoting gender ahead of next year’s governorship election in the state to stop insulting women and focus on capacity and competence to deliver democratic dividends to the people.

Insisting that there is nothing spectacular about being a governor such that it should be exclusive for men, Olujimi added that she feels insulted whenever people insinuate that it was not time for women to govern the state.

The former Senate Minority Leader made her submission at the weekend, while formally declaring her ambition to contest the coming polls on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in her ward 7, Omuo Ekiti, headquarters of Ekiti East Local Council of the state.

Olujimi, who said she doesn’t believe that politics is a man’s world, added: “What about politics at the level of the Senate, will you not say it is man’s world? What is on the ground is not about men or women. It is about development, it is about inclusiveness. It is about wanting to serve your people.”

The lawmaker said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was beatable provided the PDP “ does not put a wrong foot forward by electing a wrong candidate as the flag bearer.”

She said her party stands a better chance of coming out victorious “judging by the performance of the APC, especially at the centre, which has brought untold hardship on the people.”