A woman activist, Ibifa Amachree-Opuiyo has called on the First Lady, Aisha Buhari to use her good office to work for the integration of a greater number of rural women especially those in the Niger Delta in government programmes and policies.

Opuiyo, who is the interim Woman Leader of an advocacy group, the Niger Delta Advocates for Peace and Sustainable Development (NDAPSD), made this call today in a chat with Kristina Reports on her way to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State for a sensitization programme for women.

She congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari and the 29 State Governors who were inaugurated today into office, noting that the day marks the beginning of a new era when women across Nigeria, especially those in the Niger Delta region hope to realise their aspirations to economic empowerment and social inclusion.

“As the leader of rural women in the Niger Delta, I am happy today because it is a special day, 29th May, 2019, a democratic day when our amiable President Muhammadu Buhari is taking his oath of office.”

“I am using this opportunity to call on the wife of the President, Hajia Aisha Buhari to use the second term to ensure the women of the nine oil bearing states of the Niger Delta are part of the government and to see to the suffering of the women at all levels”.

The women leader further advised that a good relationship between the Niger Delta women and the government of all levels would reduce the unending restiveness in the region, pointing out that the women have a way of controlling their children.

Mrs Ibifa Amachree-Opuiyo, who hails from Okrika in Rivers State, expressed the confidence that the President’s second tenure will be women-friendly, with special focus on the suffering rural women in the Niger Delta, who had been neglected by governments at all levels.

She urged the federal government to set up special poverty alleviation scheme for women of the Niger Delta region through the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).