Tangi is the only woman elected as a local government chairperson in Bayelsa State since the advent of the current democratic dispensation and the second in the state’s history. “Every Nigerian, including elected local government chairpersons, enjoys the fundamental right to freedom of association as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “The historic ruling ordered that federal allocations be paid directly to local councils and prohibited state governors from dissolving elected local councils.” “We call on the women of Bayelsa State and all Nigerians of goodwill to rise in defence of Hon. Mrs. Alice Allen Tangi and with every woman who refuses to surrender her democratic rights to political intimidation.”