{"id":131708,"date":"2023-12-15T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/15\/nigeria-should-have-female-governor-by-now-veteran-actress-joke-silva\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:28:12","slug":"nigeria-should-have-female-governor-by-now-veteran-actress-joke-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/15\/nigeria-should-have-female-governor-by-now-veteran-actress-joke-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Should Have Female Governor By Now \u2013 Veteran Actress, Joke Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Legendary Nigerian actress, Joke Silva, has bemoaned the lack of women in positions of leadership in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning actress claimed that although women led Nigerian society before independence, but now they no longer hold such authority.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-903420 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0845.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"438\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with TVC, Joke Silva stated that Nigeria should have at least one democratically elected female governor by now.<\/p>\n<p>She contended that First Lady Oluremi Tinubu is the only woman with the necessary experience to hold the coveted position of number one citizen.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: \u201cHave You Finished Your Case In Court\u201d \u2013 Iyabo Ojo\u2019s Daughter, Priscilla Ojo Blows Hot As She Drags Naira Marley Over N500M Lawsuit<\/p>\n<p>Silva said<strong><em>: \u201cIn the area of leadership, especially political leadership, women have regressed. I mean, we had some really powerful women. You mentioned Fumilayo Kuti earlier. All these powerful women. There were so many of them spread around the nation. So, you expect them to grow in numbers by now.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cAt least by now, we should have had a female governor. Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu for one, in contemporary Nigerian politics, is probably the most experienced female politician. She was just in the Senate for a long time and now she is the First Lady.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cBut the thing is this: how many others? But we have so many male senators. It goes back to what late Chief MKO Abiola used to say: \u2018A nation clapping with one hand.\u2019 How do you clap? How is it heard?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Virginia Ngozi Etiaba, the first woman who served as governor in 2006, was not elected. 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