Uniabuja VC pushes for more women in leadership

• As Akpabio, others hail NILDS DG

From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja

The acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Patricia Lar, has said that there is need to have more women in leadership positions in the country.

Lar stated this, while speaking at a symposium to mark the six years anniversary of the Director General, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS),Professor Abubakar Sulaiman,in Abuja.

The acting Vice Chancellor, who noted that there are many women, who are qualified to lead, appealed to the men to ” allow the women to thrive.”

According to her, there is need for political parties to commit to fielding more women as candidates for elective offices, in the overall interest of the country.

“Let’s allow the women to thrive. Let’s embolden them. Women should be encouraged. Choose women and commit them to lead. This will change our country.’

This is as the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, commended the NILDS DG for his leadership of the the Institute in the last six years.

Akpabio, who was represented by a member of the NILDS board, Senator Victor Umeh, described Sulaiman as a resilient and knowledgeable administrator, who have transformed the institute in the last six years.

“This institute, he has turned it around so much that anytime you drive into these premises, you know that you are walking into an ambience of a citadel of learning, where people’s minds are developed.

“For us in the legislature, this place is a place where the skills of lawmakers are honed. When you come here, you will understand basic symbols of lawmaking.

“And once you follow the guides and the lectures they give you, you turn out to be a good lawmaker; the purpose of setting up this institute is very well realised under his leadership,” the Senate President stated.

Others at the event, including the founder GOTNI Leadership Centre, Linus Okorie, also lauded the NILDS boss for his transformational leadership in the institute.