From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
A Feminist advocacy group, under the auspices of Kogi Women in Politics, has added its voice to the agitation for power shift to the Western Senatorial Zone of the state as it calls on the National leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone Kogi State Governorship to the West.
The group premised its argument on principle of equity and fairness, which the group says binds the state as a United political entity in Nigerian Federation.
Convener of the advocacy group, Mrs Titi Omotola, said at a news conference in Lokoja over the weekend, that women in Kogi West support emergence of an APC Governorship candidate of Okun extraction, adding that the women movement for change is not negotiable.
“Since the creation of Kogi State, Kogi East has ruled for 16 years and at the expiration of the second term of governor Yahaya Bello, Kogi Central would have ruled for eight years while Kogi West has not produced the Governorship position of the state.
“Kogi West Women in Politics pleads with the national leadership of APC to give a favourable consideration for the zone to produce its Governorship candidate.
The group expressed its aversion to “ethnic and political marginalization of any part of the state and urged all parts to eschew ethnic antagonism”
The advocacy group praised Governor Yahaya Bello for giving fair representation to the women folk in the state as more women have been appointed into key political positions at state and local government levels.
The women expressed confidence in the feminist disposition of Governor Bello’s administration by according priority to women representation in governance.
They therefore appealed to the Governor to support women’s quest for peaceful power shift in the state as the governorship tussle hots up with legal firestorm