The Asiwaju Bola Tinubu administration, according to the vice president-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, will be welcoming to women. Shettima revealed this during a reading of a book written by Hadiza Usman, the former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Entrepreneurng Report.
Usman wrote a book on her experiences leading the ports as the first female to hold that post, “Stepping on Toes, My Odyssey at the Nigerian Ports Authority,” in which she discussed her interactions with Rotimi Amaechi, a former minister of transportation, among other issues.
Shettima expressed the administration’s commitment to being gender-friendly while praising the book’s author in his succinct remarks.
“She is an iron lady; I doubt I’d have the guts to pen such a book. Whatever the case, I’m here to support our sister. We must be sympathetic and supportive of our female citizens.”
According to a proverb among Ghanaians, educating a man means educating an individual, whereas educating a woman means educating a nation.
“The Asiwaju Bola Tinubu administration would be gender-friendly, so rest easy. He was the first governor to name a woman as his deputy and the first to name a woman as a state’s chief judge. I was the first person in the North to have five women on my team.”
Shettima also said he would give the incoming administration all freedom to uphold the law. You can trust that we will uphold the law, he assured them. The vice president-elect urged Nigerians to develop a habit of reading regularly.
He declared, “We need to read to know what is occurring in the world, as reading is not very common in this region of the world. I occasionally buy books merely to support authors. I’ll spend up to N500,000 in one go on books that I’ll give to friends and family as a show of support for authors.
People are willing to spend a lot of money on things like Apple watches and other gimmicks, but rarely do we buy books. We might not be experts in every field, but we ought to know everything.
Mohammed Adoke, the former Attorney General of the Federation, praised the author for doing a fantastic job of telling her side of the tale earlier in the reading.
Adoke remarked that he could identify with her situation because he had experienced a similar fate. Usman had before said that she had made the decision not to be the victim of the alleged embezzlement of public cash.
When you criticize powerful individuals with extensive networks, you can be sure that you will get verbal abuse from everyone, she stated.
Therefore, I made the decision that I had to share that story rather than remain silent and risk being implicated in the NPA’s theft.
“I thought it was crucial to clarify the facts in front of everyone. I had to say something to inspire people because I adore reading memoirs in general.”
Source: Punch
