Presidential Poll: Adesanya-Davies and Others, See List of Women In Nigeria That Want To Be President In 2023 -By Harrison Nwachukwu

INEC Announces Date For 2023 General Elections
General elections will be held in Nigeria on 18th February 2023 to elect:
1. The President/Vice
2. Members of the Federal House of Representatives, and
3. The Senate
That of the Governors and the State Houses of Assembly will hold on 4th March, 2023.
WINNERS will be inaugurated on 29th May 2023.

LIST OF WOMEN WHO HAD BEEN NIGERIA’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Historical Background in Nigeria

Dr. Sarah Jibril is Nigeria’s first female presidential candidate both at the primaries and main elections, having run for president on four occasions. She contested under the Social Democratic Party (1992) and People’s Democratic Party (1998–2015).

Prof. Remi Comfort Sonaiya joined her as the second candidate in 2015 under her KOWA party while she herself again, along with Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, Obi Ezekwesili, Elishama Rosemary Ideh, Iwuagwu-Emihe and Eunice Atuejide were out in 2019 elections to contest the presidential election.

LIST OF THOSE WOMEN WHO WANT TO BE NIGERIA’S NEXT PRESIDENT IN 2023

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, there are six female presidential aspirants, who have declared as Presidential aspirants, that they are interested and want the Aso Rock job. Find the list below:

1. Mercy Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies
An Academic, Linguist and Communication Arts expert, Educationalist, Writer and Poet.
(People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

2. Joyce Ogochukwu Nsaka
Founder of Sozo Women Foundation.
(The African Democratic Congress (ADC).

3. Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Nuhu-Aken’Ova
SRHR, Population and Development Expert.
(Social Democratic Party (SDP).

4. Ann Dozie-Enukora
HR Professional Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (Defunct DPR), Department of Petroleum Resources.
(All Progressives People’s Party (APC).

5. Elizabeth Emmanuel
Experienced Local government coordinator/ Local government chairman (ACCORD Party).

6. Khadijah Okunnu-Lamidi Media Entrepreneur and Youth Development Advocate.

At the time of writing, there are six female aspirants for 2023, as in 2019 candidates compared to the previous elections in which there was only one female in 2015; and 2011 election had only one female candidate.

Female For Nigerian President?

As the 2023 elections draw closer, most Nigerians have expressed their disappointment in the Buhari administration. Would you rather vote for a female presidential candidate in 2023?

….Watch out for more ….. And tell us which of them you would support?

FIVE Women who had wanted to take over Buhari’s job in 2019

Meet the five female presidential aspirants who jolted for Buhari’s job at the 2019 poll.

With barely seven months to the 2019 general elections, some Nigerian women had declared their intentions to unseat President Buhari — a clear indication that not all women belong only to kitchen, living room and the other room.

Five women had joined the male dominated race for the position of Nigeria’s President come 2019.

These women have sighted unemployment, reduction in the standard of living of Nigerians, and very serious insecurity as part of the reasons for their action.

Take a look at those women who had hoped to “sack” President Buhari from the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in 2019.

1. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies

Mercy Olufunmilayo Adesanya-Davies, is a Professor of Language and Communication Arts at the Rivers State University of Education.

The 55-years old then, now 60 years who hails from Irra, Kwara State holds a B.A at Unife, Masters in English Language, Ph.D in Applied Linguistics & Communication Arts and Doctor of Divinity (D.D) degree and Professor of Divinity (Honoris Causa) Awards of North-western Christian University, Florida, United States of America.

Professor Adesanya-Davies is also a cleric and founder of the Agape Bible Church, Port Harcourt.

“I am aspiring to be the next president of Nigeria. I am out to put laughter of joy on the mouth of all,” she said.

Adesanya-Davies said she wanted to be former president Goodluck Jonathan’s running mate in 2015, adding that Patience Jonathan has endorsed her presidential ambition.

“2015 was when I first thought about being a presidential aspirant. This is the main reason: That I am capable and destined to do the job and that I was born October 15th and I got married on October 15th. – Everything about me is just 15th and Buhari declared his candidacy on my birthday, on October, 15th. I had said to President Goodluck Jonathan in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), I was going to be his running mate. I told him to let Vice President Namadi Sambo step down for me.

“But delay is not denial. That is why I am staging a come-back. I have done some consultations. The first person to put a call through was Patience Jonathan. I told her that I am picking the presidential form this time around and she endorsed my decision,” she announced.

The cleric also spoke about President Buhari. “Buhari’s governance has to take positive reminiscences to Goodluck Jonathan. An old man cannot combine minister for petroleum ministry with the presidency and it will work. We need them to work hard and get the technocrats to do their jobs again,” she declared.

Adesanya-Davies was of PDP but later went to pitch her tent with Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA) where she emerged as the flag bearer of the party and contested 2019 election as a presidential candidate. She is currently contesting under PDP for the No 1 job again. PMA-CHOICE agenda is tagged ADVANCED RESTRUCTURING AGENDA. Now she says, “I have a dream, that one day, I will become the president of Nigeria, and the time is now”.

2. Oluremi Comfort Sonaiya

After a somewhat unsuccessful aim at the 2015 presidency in 2015, Remi Sonaiya made a second attempt at Nigeria’s top job – that of the President, in her party KOWA, in 2019 but could not secure the ticket as in 2015 as a flag bearer.

Sonaiya was 63, is an educationalist, writer and founder of the KOWA Party.

She holds a Ph.D in Linguistics from Cornell University in America.

Sonaiya believes leadership is Nigeria’s biggest problem, a quality she promises to provide if she becomes President in 2019.

3. Elishama Rosemary Ideh

Elishama Rosemary Ideh ran for the position of Nigeria’s president on the platform of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN).

In fact, Ideh said she will defeat President Buhari and all other presidential aspirants in 2019 but she couldn’t.

You heard that right:
Ideh says, she would provide articulated workable solutions to address the myriad of problems confronting Nigeria.

“We will confront the monster of corruption with utmost vigour, but with a different mind-set from past and current efforts. We will fight corruption in all its tangible and intangible manifestations. We will strive to enhance the Independence and autonomy of the EFCC in terms of its funding, privileges, powers and even the composition of its leadership,” she said.

“Unlike our opposition, who seek to use the EFCC as an attack dog to fight their opposition while shielding their friends from the consequences of corruption and other misdemeanours, we are confident in giving the EFCC the latitude it needs to carry out its statutory mandate and to prosecute cases without bias or prejudice, simply because we have nothing to hide.”

“Nigeria needs a leader who combines integrity with intelligence and a deep and vast understanding of the implications of the 21st global economy and Nigeria’s place in it,” she added.

4. Adeline Iwuagwu-Emihe

Adeline Iwuagwu-Emihe, an American-trained political administrator also eyed President Buhari’s job in 2019.

She ran on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alongside Atiku Abubakar and others.

Iwuagwu-Emihe, had released a ten-point transformational and developmental agenda she hopes to “vigorously” pursue if given the presidential mandate.

“I believe that with the right leadership, equitable distribution and management of the nation’s given natural and human resources, it is possible to adequately provide for all citizens both big and small.

“Although the nation’s constitution is limited in its pagination, it is huge in its provision for equity and justice for all the people. We must use it as the common ground to love and care for one another,” she added.

She expressed her desire and unquantifiable zeal to innovate the country in alignment with the modern socio-political, agro-economics, educational, infrastructural, industrial, judicial, security, technological and quasi-evolutionary process if offered the opportunity by 2019.

5. Eunice Atuejide

Eunice Atuejide, 39, now 44 years was the founder of the National Interest Party (NIP).

Atuejide is the presidential flagbearer of the NIP.

A legal practitioner, Atuejide has also travelled to at least seventy-six countries and a hundred and thirty cities across the globe.

She speaks Igbo, Yoruba, German, English and French fluently. Atuejide owns EB Consults Limited – a consultancy company in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

(Culled from: July 23rd 2018, 3:25:08 pm).

The Calendar and Political Itinerary for 2022 in Nigeria

1. Consultation continues January : 1-31

2. Intensive consultation continues February: 1-28

3. March: INEC give guideline for aspirants, candidates, parties in respect of congress, primary election and campaign.

4. April: Campaign for Presidential and Gubernatorial elections.

5. May: Party Congresses.

6. June: Party Primary Elections.

7. July: Petitions on Primary elections.

8. August: Court of Appeal hearing on Primary elections conducted.

9. September: Supreme Court verdict on all Primary elections. Candidates & winners for Presidential & Gubernatorial flag bearer of Parties contesting.

10. October: Aggressive campaign by candidates/Parties across the federation.

11. November: Campaign continues.

12. December: Peace Accord signed by all presidential and Gubernatorial candidates.

13. February 2023: Presidential and National Assembly elections

14. March 2023: Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections.

Early preparation is the best… Be guided accordingly!

No time for procrastination!

REFERENCE

https://www.nigerianwomenaspirants.com/aspirants/search?search=Funmilayo+Adesanya-Davies