By Innocent Onoh
A female journalist in Nigeria, Mrs. Oluchukwu Ajulufo, has achieved the rare feat of emerging as the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, a major political party in the country. Mrs. Ajulufo will contest in the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State, South East Nigeria.
She was nominated by affirmative action and unanimous votes of the 64-man delegate at the primary election of the LP in Awka last Saturday.
“If elected, I will ensure security of lives and property, employment opportunities for youths and women and robust agricultural programmes to make the state the food basket of the nation, among others”, she said in her remarks shortly after the historic nomination. The National Chairman of Labour Party, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, who declared Mrs. Ajulufo winner of the primaries, expressed satisfaction with the process and described her emergence as a “divine mandate”. He urged all members of the party and well-wishers to fully support the lady to win the election.
Abdulsalam appealed to aggrieved party members to file their petitions with the party and assured them that the party’s leadership would act on their grievances, describing the party leaders as ideological and social democrats who would not impose candidates on anyone or carry out selective justice.
Reports say that Mrs. Ajulufo is the second female to emerge as governorship candidate in Anambra state, after Mrs. Kate Okafor of African Conscience Democrats, ACD.
