The ideal woman every society needs is a woman who is not afraid
to lead, work, to excel, to love, to laugh, to cry and to dance and those are
the qualities of a Mogulette woman. You will agree with me that we are in a
time when women are coming out to be more than housewives or just exist. In
2015, it was reported that: We are currently living under a record-high number
of simultaneous female world leaders. For several years now, the stable status
quo has been around 20 female world leaders at any given time. For much of
2014, the number was 22, a record high.” - Rulers.org
It is also true that the current on-going global female
empowerment trend has inspired women to become business moguls who thrive in
both their careers and their homes. No doubt, the innovative leadership and the
entrepreneurial strength of the 21st century women in politics have
continued to rise and has motivated a lot of the womenfolk to rise up against many
favourable and unfavourable backdrops they had been exposed to; this of course
is a passion that have developed from the share passion to speak up and stand
up for other women, who probably cannot speak for themselves.
In politics or
cooperate service, for every woman aspirant the world has recorded, there is
always an innate passion for service, families and for her nation. We find such qualities in many women leaders
of the world from time past down to the current rise of Theresa May, British
prime minister and Hilary Clinton, the first female democratic candidate for President
of the United States in the 2016 election.
So far, Hilary
has held on to her faith in channelling the path of women politics in this era
of gender wars, her testament in this political race is the strength of every
ambitious woman out there who needs to win. For Theresa May, her assumption of
office as British prime minister is what i will describe as a case of when:
“opportunity meets with preparation” the Britain referendum to exit the EU and
the resignation of David Cameron was strategic in speeding up the process of
another woman’s dream to lead her country in solving the economic
and social issues that arose as a result of the Brexit outcome.
British
political Mogulette, Theresa May just like Hilary had always
wanted to become the first British prime minister,
she is said to also possess a steady and serious leadership qualities that has
made her a role model for aspiring female MPs and she once told prospective
candidates before the 2015 election that "there is always a seat out there
with your name on it". Now she has a seat which she
had always nursed in her heart as one of her university friend once said about
her on BBC: “I cannot remember a time when she did
not have political ambitions. She did want to become the first woman prime
minister and she was quite irritated when Margaret Thatcher got there first”- Pat Frankland.
Furthermore, in the cause of this whole global women activity in
governance, America and Britain seems to be the two major continent of the
world that has channelled the cause for women in global politics and since both
nations have a huge influence in major parts of the Africa continent and if
Nigeria is still the giant of Africa, then I foresee this women political
revolution in Nigeria too.
Let’s cast our
minds back to the 2015 election, and let’s capture a Nigerian woman who has
such ambition as Hilary and Theresa, Remi Sonaiya, I do not know her personally
but I met her through her manifesto of what she hopes to achieve for Nigeria and
how she captured the situation of the Nigerian youth in her book, ”Daybreak Nigeria” where she said: “A
Nigerian nation where every single citizen truly belongs; where no individual
suffers avoidable exclusion; where the common good is pursued by all; where the
citizens live dignified lives in a clean, orderly and safe environment, not
subjected to needless deprivation due to the actions or inactions of their
leaders I envision a Nigeria where all the available resources, both human and
natural, work to enhance the international standing of the country and cause
the African to walk tall on the global scene.”
For the Nigerian youths, she said: “You
could have had a better life growing up, but we completely impoverished your
parents. Your dad was laid off when production almost ground to a
complete halt at the factory where he worked because there was no electricity
to keep the machines running. He lost his job, and you lost your dad.
Because he could not find another job he began drinking and staying out
late. One day he simply disappeared, and the next thing you knew his
corpse was brought home for burial. At such a tender age you had to start
hawking bread in the mornings before you left for school and as soon as you got
back. You had no time to play anymore. I apologize.” - Sonaiya
Again, Sonaiya has displayed the true
essence of being a mother in the face of domestic and societal upheaval. With
this development, and with a clear cut honour for African women and the
residual respect for our menfolk, it is almost certain that Remi Sonaiya is
more than ready to do it again in 2019, not because of suiting her feminine ego
but to deploy the multitasking spirit of a woman’s strength in taking our
nation to places we only see in the history of political manifestos. Are we going to permit Remi Sonaiya or other aspiring women in politics
to come back again and answer the question of proper leadership from the
womanist angle, the purpose of education, human development, youth inclusion
and the communal creativity our nation has been trying to attain?
Conclusively, the dogged passion of Hilary Clinton’s 2016
presidential ambition and the preparedness of Theresa May’s recent role as
British prime minister is a vivid proof of women going beyond campaign talks to
actual actions and the world needs to
probably envisage more the from
womenfolk. Now that, Theresa May is the
new prime minister in Britain, if Hilary Clinton hopefully becomes American
president come November 2016, and in 2019, Nigeria as the giant of Africa
produces the first female president, then the top world leaders will be women. If you can’t remember all I have said, don’t
forget to use this caption- Mogulettes in political leadership…Britain is on
course, Americans decide, will Nigerians beckon for a female president in 2019? www.standoutwithpat.tv/mogulettes-mag
