While the women got 15 seats, which represents a meager 3.5 per cent, the men bagged a total of 408 seats, which represents 96.5 per cent of the 423 seats.
The elected legislators include 98 out of 109 Senate, and 325 out of 360 House of Representatives seats.
Altogether, seven parties won in the Senate, while eight parties won House of Representatives seats.
Although the Commission has only declared winners for 423 legislative seats, it directed that supplementary elections would be conducted in 46 other constituencies.
Meanwhile, of the federal lawmakers elected so far, women got two seats in the Red Chamber, and 13 seats in the Green Chambers.
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According to INEC on party representation for the 10th Assembly, APC won 57 Senate seats; the PDP, 29; LP, 6; SDP, 2; NNPP, 2; YPP, 1; and APGA, 1. For the lower chamber, the electoral chair said the APC has 162 seats; PDP, 102; LP, 34; NNPP, 18; APGA, 4; ADC, 2; SDP, 2; YPP, 1.
Two females who made the Senate list include the deputy governor of Rivers State, Ipalibo Banigo, who was elected the representative for Rivers West Senatorial District under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Kingibe Ireti was also elected the Senator for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under the Labour Party (LP). She is the wife of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Baba Gana Kingibe.
13 females made the 10th Reps list.
This development comes as the women celebrated the 2023 International Women’s Day (IWD) world yesterday.
This year’s International Women’s Day is themed, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.”
According to the United Nations, the theme is aligned with the priority theme for the upcoming 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-67), “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”.
Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has raised concerns over the disparity in the male-female percentage in all spheres of governance and career.
The commission, however, urged the National Assembly to accelerate the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill and other bills that will aid affirmative action in the country.
