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A first of its kind intensive six months legislative and leadership development programme for aspiring female lawmakers, between the ages of 25 – 45 years. Targeted at working professionals who have a strong interest in politics and aspire to run for lawmaking office at the federal or state assemblies across Nigeria.
ElectHER Future Lawmakers Programme is a flagship programme of ElectHER Academy which seeks to address the decline in numbers of female leaders and to raise a new generation of female lawmakers who are resolute in their pursuit of changing the statuesque. This fellowship is aimed at identifying, equipping and enabling women working in different sectors to run for law making office positions.
2023: ElectHER vows to upturn women’s 2019 political slide
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From left Co-Founders, ElectHER, Ibijoke Faborode and Abosede George-Ogan; and Communications Lead, Omobola Emmanuel, at the one-year anniversary press briefing of ElectHER held in Lagos.
By Josephine Agbonkhese
ElectHER, a non-partisan women’s political advancement organisation, has vowed to ensure that the poor representation of women in politics experienced in 2019 will not be the case in 2023.
“We will ensure that women ‘Decide, Run and Win. We are on a mission to support 1000 women to run for office in 2023,’ said its co-Founders, Abosede George-Ogan and Ibijoke Faborode, during a media brief ahead of the organisation’s one-year anniversary celebration holding Saturday, December 19
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Co-founders of the group, Abosede George-Ogan and Ibijoke Faborede, disclosed this in Lagos at a press conference to mark the first anniversary of ElectHER.
Out of the 1000 women it vowed to support, George-Ogan explained that few of them would be directly sponsored to win elections.
According to her, the organisation would set up an election campaign fund to make money available for women to run.
Faborede on her part explained that given that there were more experienced male politicians than their female counterparts, the group through its recently launched ElectHER Academy seeks to equip women with the competence and prepare them for the journey ahead.
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