Kaduna govt: We’ve empowered women with N600m in 7 years

Governor Nasir El-Rufai and his deputy, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe

The Kaduna State Government says it has disbursed over N600 million to women entrepreneurs and groups to support them towards improving their businesses in the past seven years.

The deputy governor of Kaduna State, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, said this at a meeting of the Women Mobilisation Directorate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Campaign Council in kaduna on Saturday.

Balarabe said Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s administration had appointed more women into political posts and empowered them like no other administration in the state.

She urged the women to vote for APC candidates at all levels in the forthcoming general election to continue to enjoy more dividends of democracy.

Balarabe, who is also the running mate of the APC gubernatorial candidate in the state, Sen. Uba Sani, convassed vote for the party’s candidates, describing it as the ticket of continuity and progress.

The deputy governor advised women in the state to bury their hatches, unite, and vote for the APC for the interest and welfare of their families as well as progress of the state.

Balarabe further promised to produce copies of the APC manifesto, list of all the projects, and programmes executed by the present administration.

This, she said, would help women to mobilise support for the party.

On her part, the Director of the Women Mobilisation Directorate of the APC, Umma Ahmad, stated that there were more women registered voters than men in the state, urging them to use their numerical strength to vote APC to victory.

The Star