Love does not win Elections
Love does not win Elections. In 2014 Ayisha answers a call from within to contest the primaries for a seat in the National Assembly on the platform of Nigeria’s ruling party; the Peoples Democratic Party. She is dissatisfied with the quality of representation both from the men and women in office; and also after years advising on and working to get more women into leadership positions; she is curious about what it would take to contest and win.
Can and does she do all that is required of her as an aspirant; or does she pick and choose and what impact did her choices have on the results? Was there ever a chance that she could have won? Go through the journey of midnight meetings, envelopes full of money, prayers for sale; tracking the First Lady and also trying to get President Jonathan to realize the damage that was being done to the party; with the automatic ticket policy and find out what it takes to win (or lose) the primaries of a major political party in Nigeria.
Told in a witty style that belies the heft of its subject matter; Ayisha takes her readers on a spell binding journey into the political underbelly of Nigeria
AUTHOR: Ayisha Osori