President Bola Tinubu’s wife, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has sent N25 million in cash support to 500 women entrepreneurs in Ebonyi state to strengthen their businesses.
Each of the beneficiaries received N50,000 and a wrapper at an empowerment rally and stakeholders’ engagement organised on Monday by the Women’s Mobilisation Directorate of the 2027 All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council in Abakaliki.
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, who was part of the delegation, said the financial support was an additional intervention by Mrs Tinubu to help women expand their businesses.
Sulaiman-Ibrahim disclosed that the delegation had earlier visited the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, where it conducted a medical outreach for pregnant women and nursing mothers.
She described the engagement as part of the periodic outreach programmes aimed at supporting vulnerable women and addressing issues affecting families.
“It is a periodic stakeholders’ engagement. We do this to support indigent women,” she said.
The minister said President Bola Tinubu had prioritised women, children and social development as key areas of his administration’s policies.
She expressed confidence that the Federal government would continue to improve the welfare of Nigerian women.
She urged the beneficiaries and other women to sustain their support for the President, adding that the administration was committed to giving governance a human face.
Also speaking, the Director ‘One’, women’s wobilisation directorate of the 2027 APC presidential campaign council, Mrs Bertha Edu, described the intervention as a continuation of the First Lady’s various empowerment initiatives.
Edu urged women and youths to participate actively in the electoral process and support President Tinubu’s re-election bid.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement for the South-East, Mrs Chioma Nweze, commended Mrs Tinubu for extending additional financial assistance to women, particularly ahead of the festive season.
Nweze described women as nation builders and encouraged them to mobilise support for the President.
She urged eligible voters to turn out on election day to exercise their civic responsibility.
“Do not sit at home, come out on the day of election. Just check where we were before, and now,” she said.
In their separate remarks, the state Commissioner for Special Projects and Consultant on Women Mobilisation in Ezza Nation, Mrs Ngozi Obichukwu, and herAgriculture counterpart, Mrs Chinyere Iyioku, said women across the state were mobilising to support President Tinubu and Gov. Francis Nwifuru.
They expressed confidence that women stakeholders across the local government areas would participate actively in the political mobilisation ahead of the 2027 elections.
“Female stakeholders in the local government areas are mobilising because this is payback time,” they said.
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, Mrs Mary Chukwu and Mrs Chinyere Linus expressed gratitude to the President and his wife for the financial support and hoped the intervention would help improve their economic conditions.
They described the gesture as significant, noting that it was the first time they had ever received such assistance from the government.
