Mrs Akeredolu, who spoke in Owerri during her official declaration to run for Imo East senatorial seat on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, said the notion that a married woman is a visitor in her father’s house should be abandoned.
“Using my life experiences while growing up in my village, Emeabiam in Owerri West LGA, and to this moment as a married lady, women are at times pushed to the backdrops, treated as second class beings who are abandoned via weddings,” Mrs Akeredolu said.
“Some members of my Emeabiam village have grumbled and even protested in the print media that I am meddling in the affairs of the community, insisting that I return to my husband’s location and leave them alone, regardless of my person and circumstances.” According to the foregoing situation, I have become a stranger as a result of my marriage. My response to such protests has always been a reaffirmation of my Emeabiam ancestry, which marriage cannot conceal.”
“I was raised to aspire higher and become anything I wanted to be as a woman, and I grew up knowing no inhibitions.”
The foundation that my parents built in my early life has shaped who I am today, both in character and in fact. So any idea that I return to my husband’s residence is probably a joke, because I’m not going anywhere.”
She stated that she was coming to the Senate to provide quality representation and to encourage other women to assume positions of political leadership in the country.
The first lady urged the electorate with screening and vetting of applicants, stressing that the next senator of Imo East must be able to deliver.
“I’ll end with a challenge,” she added, “to build processes for screening, clearance, and emergence of credible folks in community leadership and political representation, such that our finest eleven emerge particularly in political representations at all levels.”
Source: The Punch
