About 416 persons will be contesting to be governors in the 2023 general elections, across 28 states of the federation. However, only 24 of them, which accounts for 6%, are females.
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This is a drop in the total number of female governorship candidates, 85, that contested in the 2019 governorship election. Although the number of registered political parties has been reduced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from 92 in 2019 to 18, as the electoral umpire deregistered 74 parties.
There have been calls for improved female participation in politics. This is so because in Nigeria’s 23 years of uninterrupted democracy, the country has not produced any female elected President, Vice President, or Governor. They are often relegated to the position of a Deputy Governor, even though there are more men than women occupying the position across the country.
The 24 women vying to be Governors in 2023 are contesting in 17 states; the other 11 states do not have female governorship candidates.
Benue has the highest number of female governorship candidates, three. They are Roseline Chenge of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Sam Abah of the National Rescue Movement (NRM), and Sharon Dabo of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
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