Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan has complained that women were “very disappointed” over Hilary Clinton’s inability to win the just concluded election to become America’s first female President.
“I am very sad about the outcome of the elections; we women have been robbed again.” Hajiya Aisha who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria today, Wednesday in Jos, Plateau State captal, expressed optimism that the womenfolk would be luckier next time in their bid for equal opportunities to serve humanity.
This was just as another woman activist, Larai Akawu, expressed shock at the loss, which she said was not expected.
“Hilary Clinton was doing well and the polls predicted that victory will go hers. Some of us here were already planning to celebrate the grand arrival of the women folk as leader at the global stage before
we got the shock of our lives.”
Larai Akawu, however, asked women not to be discouraged by the setback, saying that there would always be another chance.
“Clinton came so close to winning; it means there is great hope that we shall be there in the near future,” she said.
Hilary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, lost to the Republican candidate, Donald Trump in the Presidential election conducted yesterday, Tuesday.
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