Senator, Rochas Okorocha, representing Imo West and Owelle of Igbo land said that Nigerian women must battle to get power, than waiting for Nigerian men, to surrender power to them.
Okorocha who said the African woman is very powerful and deserved a place of importance in appointment noted that, in spite of her enormous powers, financial exclusion has incapacitated her in the scheme of things.
He urged the women to take power by deliberate effort, as against waiting for the understanding of the menfolk, to so decide.
According to him, it will be a long wait, if the women do wait for the men but a deliberate shot at the Presidency could end up with negotiation for governor.
Okorocha said: “Women must be given a place of importance and position. For women, what I understand is that women want to sit and beg for power. Power is not given, Power is taken.
“Women must rise, if you do not start contesting for President, you would not be deemed fit for governor. So start contesting for President and make Governor, go for governor and make local government chairman.
“If you are waiting for these men to call you one day because you are so beautiful, come and take power, you will wait till thy kingdom come.”
Okorocha who hailed the strength of the Nigerian woman said “African woman is too great, we think that once we call them women, it is a second class citizen, meant, to serve the man.
“They don’t understand that a woman is first a man before becoming the woman. So a woman is an extra man because she has a womb. The womb-man, they see farther than you can see; they understand better,” he stated.
The former governor of Imo State said Nigeria’s insecurity problem can be resolved through women empowerment: “If we empower all the women, there will be no Boko Haram, Boko Haram. If there is financial sustainability for women, you cannot have Boko Haram.
“Boko Haram is as a result of the children getting out of the control of their mother because she does not have the resources to keep them and teach them.
“These children, who gave birth to them, is it not the mothers? Are we saying the mothers do not know their children are in Boko Haram? They know, but when you lost control when you wake up in the morning, you do not have N1,000 do not have 10, 000; you have N500 how can you ask as an executive young man to come and sit down.
“The shouting of a father depends on how much he has and the control of a mother depends on how much she has.”
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