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Politics tamfitronics The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has advocated a break to barriers that discourage Nigeria women participation in politics.Ewuare made the call on Sunday in Benin, when the gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) for the Sept. 21 election in Edo, Patience Key, paid a courtesy call to his palace.AdvertisementAccording to him, women should no longer be relegated to the background, especially in governance due to their strength and population.The Royal father commended the leadership of the PRP for ceding its gubernatorial ticket to a woman despite the ‘patriarchal and patrilineal’ structure of human society, dominated by men.“A female in our society that is patriarchal and patrilineal  dominated, you came out amongst all the male to contest.“So, I commend the party,  PRP, which deemed it fit to pick you as...