Mama Taraba resigns as minister, quits APC
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let me tell you today that if baba said he is going to contest in 2019 i swear to allah i will go before him and kneel and tell him that baba i am grateful for the opportunity you gave me to serve your government as a minister but baba just like you know i will support only atiku because he is my godfather. if atiku said he is going to contest1 minister of women affairs and social development senator aisha alhassan also known as mama taraba has resigned from president muhammadu buharis cabinet and from the ruling all progressives congress1 she said she was axed without any viable or genuine reason1 if i am not good enough to contest elections in the apc then i feel i am not also qualified to remain a minister in the apc government she stated1 she thanked the president her ward executives and other members of the party for the opportunity given her to serve1 aisha alhassan was the governorship candidate of the apc in the 2015 election in taraba state1 she was the only one disqualified by the nwc out of 12 aspirants slated to run in the primaries scheduled for tomorrow1 today the 29th of september 2018 i wish to transmit to the president my decision to resign as the minister of the federal republic of nigeria and withdraw my membership of the all progressive congress apc1 sen. jummai alhassan @senaishaalhassn1 read her letter to president buhari and also her letter to the apc. we must warn that her letter to the president starts with a typo resignition instead of resignation1 aisha alhassan may however have incurred the wrath of the party when she declared in a bbc hausa service report last year september that she would support former vice-president atiku abubakar for the presidency instead of president buhari1 abubakar is now a presidential aspirant among a dozen other aspirants in the peoples democratic party1 she said her choice of abubakar was predicated on the fact that the former vice president is her godfather1 atiku is my godfather even before i joined politics. and again baba buhari did not tell us that he is going to run in 20191 alhassan hinged her resignation on her disqualification in the screening for the 2019 taraba state governorship contest by the apc national working committee1 on the possibility of losing her job for rooting for abubakar in 2019 alhassan said if because of what i said i am sacked it will not bother me because i believe in allah that my time has elapsed that is why1 baba is not a mad man like those calling for my sack. they have been sending it and spreading that if baba sees this i will be sacked1 however buhari declined to sack her for the statement and she also reportedly went to beg the president to retain her job1 h.e. sani abubakar danladi . cleared1 2.sen. joel danlami ikenya cleared1 3.garba umar-utc cleared1 4.prof. mohammed sanni yahaya cleared1 5.comrade bobboi bala kaigama cleared1 6..aliyu omar mon cleared1 7.chief ezekiel afunkuyo cleared1 8.chief david sabo kente cleared1 9.mohammed tumba ibrahim cleared1 10.barr. kabiru umaru esq. cleared1 11.aliyu omar mon cleared1