The Alliance for Inclusion (AI), FCT chapter, has advocated for inclusive participation of women, persons with disabilities and youths in the 2019 general elections.
The Head of the Coordinating Committee, Mrs Chinwe Onyeukwu, made the call yesterday at a press conference in Abuja.
She described marginalization, under-representation of female candidates and absence of persons with disabilities in the electoral process as a development suicide.
“Having watched with great concern the political developments leading up to the recent submission of party candidates, we have come to the realization that except something drastic is done, Nigerian women, youths and persons with disabilities would continue to be onlookers. To allow such to continue is to commit political suicide,” she said.
Onyeukwu also lamented vote buying, intimidation and violence that marred the recent party primaries in the states and described the electoral process as a charade.
