August Meeting: Buhari’s wife ask Igbo women to hold Nigeria Together

By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri

The wife of President Mohammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari, today, called on Igbo women to lead in making Nigeria one united country.

She stated this in Owerri, during the 2017 August meeting, organized by Governor Rochas Okorocha’s wife, Nneoma Okorocha, held at Heroes square in the state.
According to her, women have the capacity to make peace and bring unity in the society. Adding that women should lead in terms of unity of the country.
Aisha said: the 2017 August meeting is an opportunity for women at all levels in Igboland to come together and discuss burning issues for development of the local communities.
“Women should lead in the process to make Nigeria one united country. I see this gathering as a gathering of women to come together and discuss development issues. I also see this gathering as a celebration of the resourcefulness of womanhood.
“It is important because it is a rare opportunity for local people to come together to dialogue the way forward for our society. We women are building bridges for peace in the country. I also promise to give my own support in the development of humanity.”
Speaking also, the wife of the Imo state governor, Nneoma Rochas Okorocha, said that the needed transformation in the country would be archived if all women acquire education.
She said: “As already stated, women are indispensable group in the development of any nation and fundamental instrument for transforming the society into a better one as they accelerate the economic, religious and socio-political orders.
“Indeed, God in his infinite wisdom endowed women with the gift of motherhood, a great potential that makes them special specie. It is a truism that the world would be incomplete and will figuratively have an insipid taste if women do not exist in it.
“Specifically, transformation needed will be possible, if education is attained by all women.”
In his brief remark, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state, called on Nigerians to have hope, and that the country was only passing through a trying period.
“I do not know why you have loved my wife so much and I believe it is only love that can bring to this state. We pray that the God of Imo and the God of the people of Imo state will honour you individually and collectively.
“Unlike the men, some of you women are closer and I do not notice any quarrel among yourselves. Not the men who are divided along political line.
“Of recent, our country is going through a trying moment, which many nations have passed before getting to their point of greatness. Let me assure Nigerians we are only passing through the moment and it will not be long we will get to that point.”
Among the dignitaries that graced the occasion, included the chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum who is the Governor of Zamfara state, Abdulaziz Yari, Wives of state Governors and the spouse of the president of the Senate, among others.

Source Vanguard Newspaper