APC Chieftain Protests Male Dominance In Party’s NEC

A female politician, and ranking member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mrs Constance Iloh has protested the paucity of female members in the party’s National Executive Council (NEC), while calling for a female replacement of the former national auditor of the party, Chief George Muoghalu.
Muoghalu who was elected as the national auditor of the party in 2018 was recently appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Director-General of Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), leaving vacant the seat.
Iloh, an Anambra born politician who has also contested for elective positions in Lagos and Anambra States in an interview with journalists said it was unacceptable that the only female in the NEC of the party was the National Women’s Leader, which is a position statutorily reserved for women.
“It is not fair to women in our party that only one woman is a member of the NEC, and that one woman holds a position that is statutorily reserved for women and that is the national woman leader.
“Now that there is a void in the NEC with the former national auditor of the party taking up an appointment, women should be considered as a replacement for him,” she said.