Uju Ohanenye has become the first female presidential aspirant in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ohanenye picked the party’s expression of interest and nomination forms in Abuja on Thursday.
She told journalists after picking the forms that male aspirants in the race would not succeed in intimidating her.
“My fear is that men will want to muscle me out, but I am standing firmly for the people I am here to protect.
“They will want to push me over, but I cannot be intimidated. I have been emboldened,’’ she said.
Although the party’s presidential nomination and expression of interest forms sell for N100 million, female aspirants, youths and persons with disability vying for any elective office on the platform of the party are to pay 50 per cent of the cost.
Ohanenye noted, “I have never been a politician, but because of what I have seen, I just felt I should come on board.
“The major solution I am bringing on board is to involve the commoners and the less privileged in the governance of the country.”
The legal practitioner explained that she was not interested in contesting for the governorship seat in her state because she does not want to be limited to a particular region or place.
“I want to be out for all Nigerians be you Christian, Muslim, male, female; I don’t care. I just want to be there to ensure that everybody feels good.
“Lack of love, selfishness and bias are the causes of insecurity; people no longer feel any sense of belonging or reason to live,’’ she said.
