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  • Updated: March 03, 2021

Group Launches Agender35 Campaign To Fund Women For 2023 Elections

Group Launches Agender35 Campaign To Fund Women For 2023 Ele

ElectHer, a non-partisan gender organization set up to foster the participation of women in politics has launched Agender35 campaign ahead of the 2023 election to give females the needed boost to run for elective legislative offices in the country.

Through its three-point agenda, ElectHer plans to leverage its $10 million Fund to empower 1000 Nigerian women, and directly fund 35 women who have to decide to run and win in the 2023 elections, the group said.

Speaking at the unveiling of the campaign in Lagos, the Co-founder of ElectHer, Ibijoke Faborode said the campaign, tagged Agender35, is a deliberate effort to significantly de-risk the process of women running for elective offices and to increase women’s political representation in Nigeria by 2023.

Through the campaign, the group will provide direct funding to 35 women, 15 for the House of Representatives, 15 for House of Assemblies, three for Senatorial offices and two for executive offices.

Ms Faborode said ElectHer has already secured $2 million of the $10 million Agender35 campaign which will be used to empower 1000 women and directly back 35 women to run for political office in 2023.

The $2 million was donated by Platform Capital Group, a private sectorally, according to Faborode, who said Agender35 is a movement that requires the collective effort of all critical stakeholders citizens, the media, political parties, the private sector, the third sector but also the government.

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She added that the group will advocate for the legislation of a minimum 35 per cent women’s representation quota in appointive and elective offices in Nigeria.

“If we maintain the current level of ignorance on socio-political issues, there will be no country in the next two decades.

“The gross under-representation of Nigerian women in elective office poses a severe threat to nation-building and socio-economic growth, given that women constitute about 50% of the population.

“To put this into context, Nigeria currently has the lowest representation of women across parliament in Africa, at a dismal 4.1%. In 2019, only 5 out of 73 candidates ran for the presidency and none of them was among the top three most voted candidates in the presidential race,” she said.

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