Ex-Lagos lawmaker urges more participation of women in politics

Princess Omowunmi Olatunji, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has advocated the need for government at various tiers to empower women who are the seeds of the nation to become self-reliant in order to enhance Nigeria’s economical growth.

Olatunji said that putting rapid attention to the empowerment of women in the society would also help identify their areas of strength and further improve the future of their respective families and the country at large.

She spoke with journalists on Monday at an empowerment programme held in Akure, the Ondo State capital, shortly after distributing gift items and working tools equipment worth N20million to women, mostly widows, orphans, less privileged, and the needies across the political wards of the state.

The Akure indigenous grassroots politician revealed that the empowerment programme was to honour the 12th year remembrance of her late mother, Princess Monisola Adeniyan-Olatunji Eddo, who died in the year 2004 at the age of 70 year old.

Olatunji, a former lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, said that there was need for philanthropists in the society to help empower the women to identify their strength and become self-reliant for the need of their families.