“I can assure you that youth unemployment will be on the front burner of the Tinubu/Shettima administration. Also, women empowerment and the education of the girl-child.”
…as APC women flagoff North-East campaign
By Deborah Hassan
365Daily – Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has assured Nigerians that if elected as president in 2023, her husband will make youth empowerment and girl-child education key priorities.
She said this at the North-East Zonal flag off of the Tinubu/Shettima Women Campaign in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Saturday, December 10, 2022.
While thanking the youths in the North-East their overwhelming support, she stated: “I want to particularly recognize the efforts of our youth today. Coming out today despite this being the women’s campaign is very encouraging for us and I can assure you that Hajiya Nana Shettima and I will work together as a team.
“I can assure you that youth unemployment will be on the front burner of the Tinubu/Shettima administration. Also, women empowerment and the education of the girl-child because before you can empower a woman, the woman has to have a form of education and education is very key to the growth of our women, not only in the North-East, but in the country as a whole.
”Because when you educate one woman, you’ve really done well for the entire household, not to speak of the entire nation”, she said.
Senator Tinubu also pledged to provide the needed support and care for women of the North-East, saying that they need a lot more ”tender loving care.”
”They need our assistance and I can assure you and promise you that we will be there,” the Lagos Central Senator vowed.
The event, which was hosted by the wife of the Borno state governor and North-East zonal coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team, Dr. Falmata Zulum, had in attendance the wife of the APC presidential candidate and chairman of the women campaign team, Senator Oluremi Tinubu; wife of the APC vice-presidential candidate and former first lady of Borno State, Hajiya Nana Shettima; and wives of other APC governors from Kogi, Plateau, Kebbi, Lagos and Cross-River states.
The Deputy National Women Leader of the APC, Hajia Zainab Ibrahim, and many high profile women within the party were also present.
The North-East zonal rally is the fifth in the series of women’s rallies so far held by the women’s wing of the APC presidential campaign since its inauguration in October 2022.