Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan, has resigned from her position in order to contest the 2019 governorship election in Taraba State.
President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted her resignation, and also urged her to contest on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
President @MBuhari gives @SenAishaAlhassn nod to contest 2019 governorship election… pic.twitter.com/9sGnFmIKmE
— APC Nigeria (@APCNigeria) August 1, 2018
The 59-year-old had threatened that she would not support Buhari’s second term ambition on the grounds that the president had promised to serve only one term.
She vowed to support former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who was then still in the APC.
Abubakar has since defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Alhassan was the candidate of the APC in the 2015 governorship election and lost to Darius Ishaku of the PDP.
