Women leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the auspices of the ‘Elected female national APC Officers and zonal women leaders’ have passed a vote of no confidence on the party’s national women leader, Dr Beta Edu.
The women accused Edu of parading fake individuals during the last courtesy visit to President Bola Tinubu, apart from ignoring them during the APC’s campaign activities in the last general elections.
Standing on these claims, they requested a separate courtesy visit to President Tinubu.
Their claims are contained in a letter addressed to the president.
Part of the letter read:
“…we express our total displeasure and concern over the misrepresentation and self-aggrandizement of the National Woman leader, Dr. Beta Edu, visit to the Presidential Villa on the 13th of July,2023.
“We wish to state categorically and in strong terms that her visit to the Presidential Villa was a misrepresentation as she in no way represent the elected National Women Officials and Zonal Women Leaders of the party as against the news making the rounds.
“We were totally unaware of her Presidential visit, and no due information nor notification was given to us the Women she claimed to represent during her visit.
“It is disheartening that Dr Beta Edu could label her visit to Mr President to be the representation of National Stakeholders and Zonal Women leaders even without them knowing and not in attendance during the visit.
“It is worrisome that at this infancy stage of the administration of President Bola Tinubu which needs all hands to be on deck that the women leadership of the party is already experiencing division and seclusion in representation which has been the pattern of the National Woman Leader Beta Edu since her emergence.
“It is in strong terms that we reject her leadership because she has failed in managing the affairs of the women in the party…”
