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Sen Aishatu Dahiru Binani, Adamawa NDC guber candidate leading female governorship candidates for
Twenty-one political parties are fielding 119 women for governorship elections in next year’s poll, it was learnt at the weekend.
However, 936 governorship candidates and running mates are on the ballot for the February 6, 2027 poll across 28 states.
Also, out of 10,020 candidates for the House of Assembly, 1,016 are women.
The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate in Adamawa state, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani, is the highest-ranking woman on the list.
According to the list, 25 women are contesting for governor in 15 states, while there is no female candidate 13 states.
The statistics show that 94 women across 26 states are running mates.
But there is no female governorship and deputy governorship candidate in Jigawa and Katsina states
States with female governorship candidates are Akwa Ibom (five candidates), Ebonyi (three) Cross River, Adamawa, Delta, Lagos (two each), while Plateau, Abia, Bauchi, Benue, Kaduna, Kano, Kwara, Ogun and Rivers have one female candidate each.
Ogun State takes the lead with 10 deputy governorship candidates, followed by Plateau and Lagos with nine women, Akwa Ibom; eight Rivers; six, Oyo, Kaduna, Enugu with five each; Abia, Adamawa, Ebonyi, Taraba; four each, Niger and Delta; three each, Gombe, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara; two each, while Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Kano, Kwara, Nasarawa and Yobe have one each.
The women governorship candidates are Doris Uzumma Umezurike (AAC, Abia), Chigbe Chioma Vivian -NRM and Joelyne Ita Hogan Bassey – ADP (Cross River); Bingel Hurung Philomina- ADP (Plateau); Aishatu Dahiru Binani-NDC and Samuel Faith Monday-NRM (Adamawa); Achibong Inimbom Nsikak-ADP, Jimmy Stella Monday-APGA, Emem Umoh-APP, Effiong Asuomo Rosemary-SDP and Umo Blessing Okon-ZLP (Akwa Ibom) and Babageidam Lami- ZLP (Bauchi).
Others are Ujah Mercy Engole-APP (Benue); Mohammed Jemila-YPP (Kaduna); Ahmed Furera-BP (Kano); Jayeola Monturayo-APM (Kwara); Adeyemi Abiola-APP and Peter Helen Ojoyule-ZLP (Lagos), Layi Labode Halima-APP (Ogun); West Ivy-AAC (Rivers); James Esther-LP and Iyovwaye Chris-NDC (Delta); Nwodum Lucy Chinwe-APGA, Nwankwo Martha Ebere-APP and Nwinyinya Juliet-ZLP (Ebonyi).
Out of 1,016 House of Assembly candidates, Rivers takes the lead with 70 out of 432 candidates, followed by Kwara with 57 of 264, Osun with 56 of 263, Imo with 54 out of 364 and Delta with 51 out of 344 candidates.
Jigawa and Yobe have the lowest number of female candidates with three female candidates each out of 213 and 234 candidates respectively, followed by Katsina with five candidates out of 293, and Borno with six candidates out of 218.
Zamfara has eight female candidates out of 249, Kebbi has nine out of 167 candidates, while Nasarawa and Adamawa have 12 and 13 female candidates out of 316 and 283 candidates.
Others are: Abia (37 out of 321), Akwa Ibom (50 out of 255), Anambra (26 out of 245), Bauchi (22 of 367), Bayelsa (29 out of 261), Benue (34 out of 422), Cross River (23 out of 145); Ebonyi (29 out of 238), Edo (16 out of 164), Ekiti (37 out of 175), Enugu (27 out of 191) and Gombe (17 out of 257).
Others are Kaduna (27 out of 317), Kano (14 out of 449), Kogi (26 out of 285), Niger (24 out of 316), Ogun (49 out of 299), Ondo (23 out of 191), Oyo (38 out of 378), Plateau (33 out of 257), Sokoto (21 out of 292) and Taraba (16 out of 288). (The Nation)
