In the 2015 presidential election, ten candidates will be contesting for the presidency… including a woman.
Prof. Comfort Oluremi Sonaiya, a former lecturer at the Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, is the sole representative of
the female gender among the male-dominated candidates.
Sonaiya will be contesting under the umbrella of KOWA party, alongside running mate, Saidu Bobboi.
In 2008, she was named an International Ambassador Scientist of the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and until recently, Sonaiya was
the National Public Relations Officer of KOWA Party.
KOWA was registered as a political party on July 16, 2009, by a group
of Nigerian Civil Society activists, professionals and technocrats.
The KOWA party claims to be different from other political parties.
Its website says: “We are mostly political activists, professionals and
politicians who did not find a level playing ground in the
God-father-dominated Political Parties. This means that we are not your
typical, conventional, rotten politicians. We are different.”