Women more productive, less corrupt than men – Politician says

Peter Obi, who is running for president with the Labour Party (LP), has said that women in Nigeria are more productive and less corrupt than men.

This is what the former governor of Anambra State said on January 8 at The Peoples Townhall, which was put on by Channels Television.

At the meeting, Ebere Ifendu, the President of the Women in Politics Forum (WIPF), said that the number of women in positions of power is abysmally low. She then asked Obi what he plans to do to change this.

She said, "I want to ask you directly: what will you do to improve the position of women in government?"

Obi answered by giving a list of all the important jobs held by women in Anambra State when he was governor.

Then, if he was elected president in the upcoming elections, he promised to hire more women into government.

He said: "I can say it without anything; women are more productive in Nigeria than men any day, any time. I worked with them when I was in the banking industry; they saved the bank. '

"I wish our men would do the same thing. And they (women) are less corrupt; they are easily satisfied with little.

"Men will just go on and on, forgetting that it is public money they are taking."