{"id":7153,"date":"2018-10-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/inec-seeks-more-participation-of-women-in-politics\/"},"modified":"2018-10-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T00:00:00","slug":"inec-seeks-more-participation-of-women-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/inec-seeks-more-participation-of-women-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Seeks More Participation Of Women In Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>INEC has stressed the need for a legal framework to encourage more women to participate in politics. This was assertion was made during the training for women to women voters\u2019 education in Abuja recently. Speaking during the programme, the Deputy Director, Gender Division, Ms. Blessing Obidiegwu, lamented what she described as the huge gap created by the lack of women in the political terrain noting that the \u201cNational Gender Policy has no legal backing and is only a policy.\u201d She added that much more still needs to be done to increase women\u2019s participation in politics and advised women not to buy or sell their votes. The training which was conducted in partnership with the National Women Trust Fund to sensitise the women trainees at the grassroots to reach out more to others by informing them about peaceful elections and voter education through a process called \u2018pair to pair,\u2019 and \u2018women to women\u2019 voter education exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 INEC has stressed the need for a legal framework to encourage more women to participate in politics. This was assertion was made during the training for women to women voters\u2019 education in Abuja recently. Speaking during the programme, the Deputy Director, Gender Division, Ms. Blessing Obidiegwu, lamented what she described as the huge gap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"PLAC","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/olumide-adebayo\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 28, 2018","modified":"Updated on October 28, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 28, 2018 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 28, 2018 12:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}