Hon. Theresa Best-fit For APC National Women Leader Position, Says RWGCI

A group, Rural Women and Girl Child Initiative (RWGCI) has said Hon. Theresa Akwaji Ushie is the best fit for the position of national women Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

In a bid to champion the cause of empowering and including women in politics, Hon. Theresa had earlier declared her interest for the position.

This is following the recent nomination of Dr. Betta Edu as minister by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, hence the office of the national women Leader of the All Progressive Congress APC, needs a representative.

A statement by the publicity secretary, RWGCI, Madam Pauline Ogar said with a proven track record as a founding member of the party in Cross River State and her grassroots mobilisation efforts, she will continue to promotes the success and full participation of women in the party.

She further highlighted Theresa commitment to creating a gender-sensitive society.

She said via the platform she advocates the welfare and development, and has been a vocal voice for emancipation of rural women and girls in a gender sensitive society like ours.

Through this pet programme, she said she has touched lot of women and girl child especially in rural areas cut across the nation.

In different fora, she said she has championed the cause for rural women and girl child to be ICT compliant.

“These including one of the programmes organised by Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in conjunction with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to train 500 Women and girls on digital skills, amongst several other donations to women across the country,” she said.

She reechoed the fact that the need to champion the cause of empowering and including women in politics begins from inculcating them with active role in major political parties.

“By this saying, not just any woman is befitting for the role but one with prospects to further sustain the gains of the party and project the success of the women folk and their full participation,” she said.

Being one who proffers solution to societal problems, Hon. Theresa is a social grassroots mobilizer who joined the All Progressive Congress in 2014, a women delight and a political pundit of no mean repute.

In 2017, she contested for the position of a councillor in her ward under the party, she contested again for the position of the Vice Chairman in Bekwarra Local Government Council in 2020. Believing in the aphorism that success is not accidental and failure is not final but it is the courage to continue that matters, she continued to push further.

Hon. Ushie is quite a dependable variable in the political caucus of the APC who believes that women deserve equal representation in all facets of the society and that despite all impression, women have excelled in many leadership positions, men and society should therefore join hands to strive for their inclusiveness.

A political juggernaut in her very own capacity and an initiator of transcendent value and ideas, Hon. Ushie is one of the few, who knows how to balance equation in APC’s state political balance sheet. Her political sagacity is of such a gargantuan magnitude that if she sneezes, all the political floras and faunas of her generation will catch the wave. Her political experience and ingenuity is of such an enormous proportion, that it endears her to numerous political juggernauts both within and outside the state.