{"id":426416,"date":"2011-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/19\/ekiti-female-lawmakers-elect-to-protect-women%e2%80%99s-interests\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:00:00","slug":"ekiti-female-lawmakers-elect-to-protect-womens-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/ekiti-female-lawmakers-elect-to-protect-womens-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti female lawmakers-elect to protect women\u2019s interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"45.5471698113\"><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ngrguardiannews.com\/plugins\/content\/valaddthis\/images\/share-long.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"37\">\n<p>FEMALE lawmakers-elect in Ekiti State have pledged to be\u00a0diligent in their job and pursue the cause of women in the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The three women elected into the Ekiti State House of Assembly on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) are Mrs. Olajide Ayotunde (Moba II), Mrs. Dupe\u00a0Olayinka (Ado II) and Wunmi Ogunlola (Ijero).<\/p>\n<p>They spoke in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday evening when the state\u2019s ACN Women Leader, Mrs. Ronke<br \/>Okusanya, led them to visit the governor\u2019s wife,\u00a0 Mrs. Bisi Fayemi.<\/p>\n<p>The in-coming lawmakers appealed for more women\u2019s representation in the government of Dr. Kayode Fayemi, especially at the local councils, so that they can contribute to the development of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Fayemi, who is the president of African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF), cautioned against rubber stamp Legislature in the state and advised the House to be constituted next month to perform creditably.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling ACN won 24 of the 26 seats in the House while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won two slots.<\/p>\n<p>She also advised the women to ensure that democracy thrives during their tenure and not to succumb to the idea of allowing the House to be turned into a rubber-stamp institution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ngrguardiannews.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=48421:ekiti-female-lawmakers-elect-to-protect-womens-interests&amp;catid=1:national&amp;Itemid=559\" title=\"Ekiti female lawmakers-elect to protect women\u2019s interests\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ekiti female lawmakers-elect to protect women\u2019s interests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> FEMALE lawmakers-elect in Ekiti State have pledged to be\u00a0diligent in their job and pursue the cause of women in the Legislature. The three women elected into the Ekiti State House of Assembly on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) are Mrs. Olajide Ayotunde (Moba II), Mrs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ekiti female lawmakers-elect to protect women\u2019s interests - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/ekiti-female-lawmakers-elect-to-protect-womens-interests\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ekiti female lawmakers-elect to protect women\u2019s interests - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"FEMALE lawmakers-elect in Ekiti State have pledged to be\u00a0diligent in their job and pursue the cause of women in the Legislature. 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