Love Does Not Win Elections Quotes

“Do not assess your chances based on how much people claim your opponents are disliked or reviled: Love is not a currency at the ballot.”
― Ayisha Osori, Love Does Not Win Elections

“There were two kinds of delegates: automatic and ad hoc. The automatic ones were PDP royalty.”
― Ayisha Osori, Love Does Not Win Elections

“Late night meetings are one of the most often-cited challenges to women’s political participation in Nigeria.”
― Ayisha Osori, Love Does Not Win Elections

“Using family ties and blood relationships as a basis for granting access to power and privilege has been vital to the military’s hold over Nigeria. In his book My Watch, President Obasanjo admitted to using this tactic when he arranged for the children of politicians in the First Republic to work with him in 1999. This has become an effective way to keep the elite quiet and complicit in the continued exploitation of Nigeria.”
― Ayisha Osori, Love Does Not Win Elections

“Why this obsession with the First Lady?”
― Ayisha Osori, Love Does Not Win Elections

“These protestations of love from men in authority do not translate into wanting to make the world a better and safer place for all women. They fail to realise that their power and wealth provide limited protection for their female relations who still have to navigate and live in a world that is to a great extent dismissive and disrespectful of women.”
― Ayisha Osori, Love Does Not Win Elections

“One was the chairman of the PDP Chapter. I first thought his name was Wai Wai Suleiman, until I realised that Y.Y. were his initials.”
― Ayisha Osori, Love Does Not Win Elections