Wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, on Friday called on Governor Muhammed Bindow Jibrilla of Adamawa State to swap his male Commissioner for Women Affairs, Alhaji Aliyu Tola, with a woman.
Hajiya Buhari made the call in Yola, the capital, while inaugurating a free medical check-up for 2,000 women in the state under her pet project, the Aisha Buhari Women Health Initiative.
She said women in the state were protesting the appointment of a man as commissioner and appealed to the governor to appoint a woman in that office instead.
She said, “The women are protesting. They asked me to pass their wishes to have a woman as their commissioner for women affairs.”
Tola, who was asked to deliver his speech before that of the wife of the president, seemed to have sensed the women’s countenance, tactically uttering a few words before inviting the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Hajiya Maisaratu Bello, a woman, to address the gathering.
The appointment of Tola as the first male Commissioner of Women Affairs in Adamawa has sparked debate in the state with some criticising it and others supporting it.
Those against it argued that the ministry was meant to carry women along hence the need to make it exclusively for them, while those in support said the full name of the ministry is Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development making it open for male and female to be made commissioners.
There are four female commissioners in Adamawa. They are Dr. Fatima Atiku Abubakar (Health), Barrister Lilian Kayode (Works), Mrs. Victoria Sashi (Mineral Resources) and Dr. Kaleptawa Farauta (Education). Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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true...... very true, give them their right!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou sabi wetin be HYPOCRISY? You be real odde. Why should a man head the women affairs ministry.
ReplyDeleteIf it were during GEJ administration and patience made this claim a quite number of people will acuse her for meddling in governance or other states affairs now that it is Buhari's wife it has been accepted that "she is right"
ReplyDeleteJust tell all highly educated and morally sound Nigerians that her suggestion that a woman should be made a commissioner in charge of women affairs doesn't make sense
DeleteBros approach matter o. plenty plenty tins dey wrong with mama peace and her way of doing tins
Deletei don't think any of you read this article properly, the wife of the president visited a state for one of her project and the women came out to ask her plead with the governor to replace the man in the women ministry for a woman, now it has become an issue in the press, I am so ashamed of these petty pocket unnecessary criticism, totally baseless....16 years of PDP brainwash has really let us astray God help Nigerians
DeleteI agree with u jare....
ReplyDeleteHmmmm selective amnesia dey worry you Shey? What happened to the inec head.... She be man? Or shortlisted women for ministerial positions or the female police spokeswoman or the female permanent secretaries he has not sacked.
ReplyDeleteBros abeg park well joor
Keep pretending, if it was Patience we will start reigning abuses on her. She is right, but then is it in her place to make such demand?
ReplyDeleteebe like say oga woman e mouth get leakages too much like peatians, pmb should be carefull a mam of honour dont allow e wife or family members to have loose mouth, that will tell us he is not diff from jonathan
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