THE Assistant Director programmes federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Lagos Funke Treasure Durodola, has advocated for more women inclusiveness and participations in Nigeria politics. She calls on the media to actively canvass the involvements of women to increase the frequency and prominent given to gender issues.
Mrs Funke made the call during a two-day media workshop on best practices and professional reporting of the electoral process organised by the international press centre (IPC) and sponsored by the European Union Support to Democratic governance in Nigeria (EU-SDGN) at BON hotel Sunshine Enugu.
According to Durodola during her presentation on “mainstreaming reports of Gender and people living with disabilities in the electoral process,” charge the media to promote the campaign for women to be actively engaged in partisans politics through creating awareness on the under-representation of women in elected office.
Funke who said the women always face challenges like party nomination, registration of women aspirants, party primaries, funding, use of language, inclusion, education and Capacity in politics, Said participation of women in politics should be an integral part of the media agenda for the 2019 election and beyond.
She then urged the media to orchestrate the presentation of the public sphere on an inclusive domain for all and then encourages news reporting and programmes content to correct the messages about women in Politics.
Funke then appeals to the media to create a platform or open forum to engage the women on a political debate and the electoral processes to educate the women on the need to be involved in the politics.
She, however, charged journalists to always question party processes that hinder the participation of women in politics, and always disclose the violation of women’s right to hold elective positions and challenge the stereotypes and structures that continue to reproduce gender inequality in Nigeria politics and electoral processes.
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