Ibijoke Faborode and Abosede George-Ogan are the founders of ElectHER. A non-partisan end-to-end women’s political advancement group, the organisation is focused on bridging inequality gaps in Nigerian politics by addressing the under-representation of Nigerian women in elective offices.
If there’s one thing that stood out during the #ENDSARS protests, it is that women like you and I drove that campaign and no one is questioning the competence of women again because, that was an expose; it showed us that women can lead. It also highlighted the issues of systemic discrimination we see against women.When we talk of women’s political advancement, it’s not a revolt against men, but a movement for equal and greater representation and nation building.
Agender was coined from agenda and gender; two words that perfectly depict our focus and plan to address the under-representation of women in elective offices in Nigeria. We have a four ‘E’ approach we want to use with the first being ‘Engage.’ Women are not participating in politics due to socio-cultural and religious issues; these are deep systemic issues we are battling as a result of patriarchy.
Our goal is to expand this into the biggest pan-African online management systems for women working or interested in working in the public sector to understand how to build products that will appeal to different sets of people. Finally, we have the ElectHer Future lawmakers programme. If there’s anything we have been hammering on, it’s the deficit we have in policies and how this has impacted in the growth of our nation.
People want to know how we’re going to get women ready, how we are going to increase sensitisation, engage the government and ensure we are not here again, discussing these same issues post-2023. We want people to look at us and say, ‘yes, you said you were going to do it and you did it,’ that’s our goal towards 2023.
Nigerian women are as disunited as their local village unions, and so long as the male bastion of dominance exists certain roles will always be filled and defined by men!
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