Two bills proposed to empower and to attach special recognition to women in Nigeria were rejected by the Senate on Tuesday.
While one of the bills seeks the creation of a special seat for a woman at the Senate, House of Representatives and the Federal Capital Territory without prejudice to eligibility to contest, the other seeks 35% affirmative action in political party administration.
Both bills were rejected by senators who voted when they were considered.
Presenting one of the bills, it was explained that “the bill seeks to create a special seat for women in the Senate, House of Representatives and the State Houses of Assembly and the Federal Capital Territory reserved solely for women without prejudice to their eligibility to contest in the existing Senatorial seats in each State and FCT.”
Incidentally,the wife of the Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo and her entourage were in the Chamber as observers of Tuesday’s legislative proceedings that saw Senators rejecting both bills concerning the female gender.
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