BREAKING:  Minister of Women Affairs, Mama Taraba resigns

The Minister for Woman Affairs, Aisha Alhassan popularly known as Mama Taraba has resigned from President Muhammadu Buhari cabinet.

Her resignation might not be unconnected to her recent disqualification by the National Working Committee of APC from contesting for governorship of Taraba State.

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On Thursday, the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party took the decision to axe Mrs Alhasan and another minister Adebayo Shittu based on the report of the party’s Governorship Aspirants Screening Committee.

Mr Shittu is aspiring to become the governor of Oyo State, while Mrs Alhassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba, is gunning for Taraba governor.

The minister’s letter of resignation obtained by SOJWORLD.COM reads in part: “I write with a lot of respect to inform Mr President of my decision to resign my appointment as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and as a member of the All Progressives Congress APC).”

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Mrs Alhassan further said in the letter that she “had always been a very committed party member and was at no time queried or admonished for any wrong doing or unconstitutional behaviour.”

“Up to the time of writing this letter, no reason was given by the Party for my disqualification to contest election under the APC.”

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