September 03, (THEWILL) – Last week, The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Basiru, announced Dr Mary Alile-Idele, as the new National Women’s Leader of the party.
Alile-Idele, an indigene of Edo State, replaces Dr Betta Edu, who was serving as the party’s National Women Leader before her appointment as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation by President Bola Tinubu.
Popularly known as ‘Capacity’, the new APC chieftain was living in the United Kingdom before she relocated to Nigeria. She is the Director, Care Quality Commission, CQC, and Registered Manager of Living Glory limited, a care home that offers learning for people with disabilities, people living with autism, older people and young adults in the United States. Her husband, Pius Alile, is the Director of Strategy and Operation of the care home.
The UK returnee is also a philanthropist. She celebrated her birthday a few years ago at the Cornerstone of Hope Orphanage, Benin City where she gave food, cash and scholarships to some children of the home. As part of her way of giving back to the society, she established Sister to Sister Worldwide, a non-governmental organisation, to cater for women in Edo State.
Alile-Idel faced some opposition before she was inaugurated as the APC National Women’s Leader. It was rumoured that she enjoyed the backing of a former Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adam Oshiomole. Oshiomole allegedly picked interest in AIile-Idel’s because she is a native of Iyamho in Edo State, which happens to be his birthplace. After she was announced as the new women’s leader, THEWILL gathered, Edu and other protesters stormed the APC secretariat where the inauguration was scheduled to take place because her candidate was sidelined.
Edu had presented Dr. Stella Odey-Ekpo, a serving Commissioner for Local Government Affairs and former Vice-Chairman, Yala Local Government Area in Cross Rivers State as her successor, but she was ignored and Alile-Idele was picked for the position instead.
