{"id":3132,"date":"2023-03-09T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:57:53","slug":"again-women-suffer-loss-in-2023-legislative-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/again-women-suffer-loss-in-2023-legislative-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Women Suffer Loss in 2023 Legislative Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the world celebrated International Women\u2019s Day on March 8, with the theme, #EmbraceEquity, Nigerian women have been counting their losses from the just concluded National Assembly elections. Results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of members elected to the 10<sup>th<\/sup> National Assembly shows worrying stagnation in the number of women elected to the National Assembly. In the Senate, only \u00a0three women have been announced as winners in the elections so far. They are: Oluranti Idiat Adebule (Lagos West), Ipalibo Harry Banigo (Rivers West) and Ireti Heebah Kingibe (Federal Capital Territory). This represents a decrease of 57% in women\u2019s representation in the Senate, with the number falling from seven in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Assembly to a low number of three. In the House of Representatives, 15 women have been declared elected with 34 seats left to be declared. This accounts for 13.3% increase from 13 women in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Assembly. These numbers do not represent a significant \u00a0improvement in female representation, from what has obtained in the National Assembly since the beginning of Nigeria\u2019s\u00a0 4<sup>th<\/sup> republic. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Constitution\nAlteration bill proposing additional women-only seats in the National Assembly\nand State Houses of Assembly failed to pass during the 9<sup>th<\/sup>\nAssembly\u2019s Constitution Review exercise. Structural barriers such as culture,\nreligion, patriarchy, finance and political violence pose challenges to women\u2019s\npolitical participation. Years of advocacy by women\u2019s groups and civil society\norganisations have yielded a few wins but not quite the substantial\nimprovements hoped for. Perhaps a more effective strategy to achieve this goal\nwill be the use of precise instruments like legislation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world celebrated International Women\u2019s Day on March 8, with the theme, #EmbraceEquity, Nigerian women have been counting their losses from the just concluded National Assembly elections. Results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of members elected to the 10th National Assembly shows worrying stagnation in the number of women elected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}