sound professional skills, they are being noticed beyond the mascara and the lipstick. It is evident from their current positions that they have been able to scale over the road blocks of ‘patriarchy.’
Their appointments can be best described as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu using one stone to kill two birds. As a politician, he knows what this would do for talking points or the narrative about his administration. Youth and gender inclusivity should be beyond lip service and he has walked his talk.To be clear, I am not a fan of identity politics. I’m for competence before representation home and abroad, especially if a country is in dire need of development.
Hon. Stella is a co-founder of the E ‘Girls Right Foundation and a graduate of the Lagos Business School Enterprise Development Center program in entrepreneurial management and the Harvard Kennedy School Certificate program for Emerging Leaders. Okotete’s counterpart, Dr. Betta Edu, a former Rivers State Commissioner for Health, was the National Women Leader of Nigeria’s ruling party.