By Mumini AbdulKareem
Kwara State-born female presidential aspirant, Prof. Mercy Olufunmilayo Adesanya-Davies is to contest the 2019 presidential election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP).
The Professor of Language and Communication Arts at the Rivers State University of Education made this known in a statement she personally signed and made available to newsmen in Ilorin, yesterday.
Davies, who hails from Ira, Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State however pleaded with the new National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus on the need for aspirants to emerge through free, fair and credible primaries to allow for quality outcome.
She advised the electorate to concentrate on the background, personality, integrity and credibility of the contestants rather than money-politics, ethnic, religious or gender bias.
She disclosed that, the decision of the federal government to make all positions open to women aspirants boosted her interest in the race.
“Nigeria has constitutionally given the opportunity to Nigerian women, so all women should see themselves as rescuers of their children and the entire nation.
“They should be encouraged, bold, courageous to register, come out en-mass to vote and be voted for. Let all women who fear God and know their responsibilities come out to serve the nation. If all women and even our men too, vote for the women folks, we all know the result. This vision will be achievable.
“Our thanks, first goes to the nation – Nigeria that says the ladies could pick our forms free politically at every level; because Nigeria is confident that the current challenges in the country can only be tackled by the women.
“My plan is an “Advanced Agenda” to restructure Nigeria when given the chance, with the teeming population of youths on my mind and the future of the upcoming and unborn generations of Nigerians.
“I speak as a Nigerian – Northerner from the Middle-belt, of the Yoruba descent who had spent over three decades of my life working in the South-south. I had obtained B.A degree at OAU Ife, M.A at Unilorin and Ph.D at Uniport. I am a Nigerian product and a proof of her ability”, she added.
