Nigeria: 2011 - Can Sarah Jubril Sail Jubilantly? - 'My Campaign is a Rescue Responsibility'

31 October 2010
Vanguard (Lagos)
analysis By Clifford Ndujihe

If zoning to marginalised sections of the polity and voting power were to be the only determinants of the 2011 presidential polls, Mrs. Sarah Jubril says she would be the biggest beneficiary. According to her, women had been grossly marginalised in the power-sharing arrangement, with no woman occupying the nation's highest office since independence in 1960.

And this is in spite of the fact that women account for about 51% of the voting population of the country. The highest office a woman has occupied is Speaker of the House of Representatives, which Hon. Patricia Etteh held for four months and 26 days between June and October 2007 before she was compelled to quit over alleged graft.

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