 Women Development Network in partnership with International Republican Institute and Kimpak Development Initiative urged the federal government and state government to see the need to include women in Nigeria's politics. The group executive director Kimpak Development Initiative Bukalai Do, made this call in Abuja during the CSO political party roundtable on women's political participation in Nigeria. That we can also take down as intervention strategy from here to our various things 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 political participation. That even at the executive, most of their pointy position, we hope to see more women are committing. And I want to say that it's not a, it's not a unpredictable catch that when we get there, it's like a marathon that we have to be engaging and gradually we believe we get there. Ido and other stakeholders who spoke at the event stated the need for a deliberate coordination of the interventions on gender equality. So while the 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 2023 general election, I think the indicator that will probably get the worst home is that on women representation. Mr. Pokola, I don't even mention the fact that we have three women in the Senate. We are not even talking of marginal increase. We are even talking of abysmal performance. From eight, we are going to be, we need to sit back at some point, do a reflection on maybe the approach, right? Maybe there's need to look at the methodology, and maybe there's the need to look at the strategy. Perhaps there's something missing Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.