National woman leader of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Kema Chikwe has said that she was optimistic
that President Goodluck Jonathan would return as elected president in 2015.
This is just as the wife of the
President, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan, said that even if 100 political
parties merged, they cannot defeat the PDP in an election.
Kema who stated this in her speech
at the presentation ceremony of the “PDP Women-in-Power 2013 Calendar” in Abuja
yesterday, said the Jonathan administration had empowered more women than any
other government in the history of Nigeria.
“We need to start moving fast to
prepare women for future elections. Until we elect 35 per cent or more of women
in the legislature, the impact of our progress will not be complete. We know of
course that next dispensation will attract possibly PDP female governors and
more deputy governors.
“We are even more confident that
when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about
50 per cent no longer 35 per cent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted,
unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women
will reach the promised land,” Chikwe said.
The former minister of aviation
led other PDP women in the hall to sing Jonathan’s praises as they sang “all we
are saying, give us Jonathan”.
Chikwe, an NWC member praised the
Jonathan administration on its developmental strides, saying it has achieved a
lot in all spheres of development, road construction, airports, education,
water resources, housing, labour, agriculture, trade, industries and military.
Source: Leadership
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