The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed ha said that a woman will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The former mi
The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed ha said that a woman will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The former minister of environment said this on Saturday at the Mo Ibrahim governance weekend in Abidjan, stating that she will be a campaign manager for the said woman.
In conversation with Mo Ibrahim, Amina Mohammed was asked when Nigeria will have a female president, she replied saying: “2023, Insha Allah”. She was further asked if she would be running, she said: “Look, all of my life has been as a public servant and as one that serves, so that is not a problem for me.”
“But let me be truthful here, I have always thought that I am appointable and not electable. I think the political system that we have in our country, I believe in democracy, but I think the model for us, where we are is an incredibly difficult environment to say you would come to office through the will of the people. I think the manipulation of democracy is a very serious issue in our countries. We have a population, as I said, has a level of literacy that can be manipulated, that is not right.
“I think this is a work in progress, democracy in my country is a work in progress, it is incredibly difficult, and that is why I believe that I’d make a really good campaign manager for the next woman president. We need to start from today to get a woman in power in 2023. Nigeria deserves a woman, a leader that can take a hundred and eighty million people to where they should be”.
The 57-year-old said there’s no glass ceiling in the Nigerian political space, in stead of that there is a concrete one.
