 Women Development Network in partnership with the International Republican Institute and Kim Park Development Initiative has urged the federal government and the state government to see the need to include women in Nigerian politics. The group executive director of Kim Park Development Initiative, Bukola Hido, made this call in Abuja during the CSO's political party roundtable on women's political participation in Nigeria. We also have conversations that we can also take as intervention strategy from here to our various states and within our network and within our sphere of influence and within the political party. And most especially, how consumer society and political party work together to actually increase women's political participation that even at the executive, the most of their points in position. We hope to see more women coming in and I want to say that it's not a hundredth of a catch that we will get the gemarathon that we have to be engaging and gradually we believe we will get there. The group executive director of Kim Park Development Initiative, Bukola Hido, are the stakeholders who spoke at the events that are the need for deliberate coordination of intervention on gender equality. While democracy is being entrenched, I think special attention must be paid to the issues of inclusivity because democracy speaks all about participation and you cannot talk of effective participation when a half or more than a half of the population are excluded in the process. And that's why for me, if we want to evaluate the 20th and the 3rd general election, I think the indicator that we'll probably get the worst home is that of women representation. Mr. Bukola, I know you just mentioned the fact that we have three women in the group. We are not even talking of marginal increase, we are even talking of abysmal, abysmal performance. From 8, we are going to, we need to sit back at some point, do a reflection on maybe the approach, right? Maybe there is need to look at the methodology and maybe there is need to look at the strategy. Perhaps there is something missing that we are not looking at. The importance of media have not been over emphasized and I think that we don't, women don't, don't use them full of media as they should. The media, we're not keen into the media enough and the media is also not keen into the cause enough and so we have short-term, medium-term and long-term goals to ensure that the media, we are, we are collaborating with the media, we are joining hands with the media to spread behavioral change communication so that we, the people in the community, the leaders and all of us, know the women that are doing great things in their community and support them. Women constitute a supportive centre for Nigeria's population. That is to say that we can leverage of the American strength of women, can begin to harmonize and leverage of the American strength to rid of support for many women in politics. Within ourselves, who can come together, women and musicians, yes we've been talking about women as much as we can. I also need the help of the media to amplify the voices of women in politics. When I've brought value to politics, so the leadership, we need the media to project it for that. We should have positive portrayals of women in politics by leadership. That can help us to further advance women's participation in Nigeria. The notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.