Develop thick skin, Otufodunrin tells female politicians
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| Otufodunrin |
Lekan Otufodunrin, prominent
media personality, founder of Journalists For Christ, and Media Career
Services, Managing Editor, Online, The Nation has said Nigerian female
politicians might have to develop thick skin with regards to their political
careers.
Otufodunrin made the statement
while reacting to a recent view by Oseyiza Oogbodo, author of The Good Life, Short Story Galore, The
Newell Murder, poet, social commentator, and curator, Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog,
that female politicians should forego motherhood in order to be successful
politically.
Both views were expressed at the
Media Round Table on the Role of the Media in Combating Gender-Related Hate
Speech Online through Objective and Conflict Sensitive Reporting organised by
the International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos, West Africa Network for
Peacebuilding (WANEP) and Humanity Family Foundation for Peace and Development
(HUFFPED) with the funding support of Peace Tech Lab and held on August 29,
2018 in Lagos.
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| Oogbodo |
The forum was all about
proffering solutions to why female politicians are not really doing well in
Nigeria and also to encourage them with good media mentions as well as shield
them from online hate speech which would discourage them from politics.
Oogbodo based his hard line view
on the fact that the top two female politicians in the world presently, Prime
Minister of Britain, Theresa May, and Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, are
both said not to have children and while this factor might not be responsible
for their enviable success, it cannot be discountenanced as well, especially in
the face of the fact that one of the most salient factors confronting Nigerian
female politicians is their family life.
And reacting to Oogbodo’s view,
Otufodunrin said he wouldn’t want female politicians to go to that extreme, but
rather develop thick skin to all the negative speech be it online or to their
faces that would discourage them from politics.
Oh well, different strokes for
different folks.
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