Entrenching Sustainable Democratic Participation of Women in Politics: The Option of the All Progressives Congress Gubernatorial Primary in Ondo State, Nigeria
Entrenching Sustainable Democratic Participation of Women in Politics: The Option of the All Progressives Congress Gubernatorial Primary in Ondo State, Nigeria

Summary/Abstract: The democratic participation of women in politics and decisionmaking is largely dismal especially, in party representation to elective positions despite, their population and participation in Franchise .Although, there had been deliberate attempt to empower women to seek elective positions through non- payment of party nomination forms as a concession to boost their participation especially, by the All Progressives Congress Party yet, patriarchy, gender bias and stereotype; religion, ethnicity, the forms of education received by the Nigerian society through colonization has not translated into consciousness raising towards reflection and action for a deliberate change of the status quo which the APC intend to foster. This paper therefore, utilizes Freire’s theoretical approach of consciousness raising of the individual in adult learning as a liberating factor to stem the societal anomaly that tend to obstruct the development of the nation. It proposes Lifelong learning as a continuum and Freire’s philosophy among the people to articulate and promote competencies to adapt to a knowledge based society, which builds on cultural values but devoid of factors of inequality towards entrenching sustainable democratic participation of women in politics.

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