WOMENS' PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA'S POLITICS: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECT

The aim of political activities is human beings morally, socially, mentally and to involve every citizen,including women in the participation of political development. This paper recognizes the fact that in spite of the role women play in politics in Nigeria, they find it cumbersome or difficult to create the enabling environment for the actualization of their mission due to the myriads of challenges militating against the effective to develop participation in the political process. The paper adopted content analysis [research design and result showed gender marginalization, poor financial base and cultural impediments .Also, lack of adequate information in political process, poor educational enrolment to those of them in the rural communities, sexual harassment and volatile environment. Therefore, it is recommended that affirmative action should be put in place to give room for more women involvement in political parties, the electoral body should endeavor to give adequate information on political activities', most of the cultural beliefs should be readdressed to pave way for more women in the democratic process, women education should be taken seriously and made free at all levels, gender issues should be discarded at all levels of elections in order to give more room for women participation. Additionally, women should address interpersonal hatred amongst one another, and political parties should discourage the women by making their process easier and almost free for women participating in the contest at all levels to breach the wide gap. If the aforementioned recommendations are taken with every serious political will, more women will not only be spectators but also participators in the political process.