Aisha Alhassan, former Minister of Women Affairs, popularly known as Mama Taraba, is dead. Details of are death are still sketchy but it was gathered that she died at a hospital in Egypt.
The deceased
battled a protracted illness in her last years.
Alhassan
contested the Taraba 2015 governorship election under the Platform of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) but lost to incumbent Governor Darius Ishaku, who
ran under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Shortly after
her loss, President Muhammadu Buhari named her Minister of Women Affairs.
However, she
left his administration under controversial circumstances as the APC failed to
clear her for the 2019 gubernatorial election.
She had
resigned her appointment and defected to the United Democratic Party (UDP).
Alhassan’s
travails in the APC under the chairmanship of Adams Oshiomhole began when she
endorsed ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2019 elections.
Her statement
had caused a huge embarrassment to the APC leadership, as a cabinet member was
not expected to endorse Atiku, who had not clinched the PDP presidential ticket
at the time.
Atiku
contested the 2019 presidential election but lost to Buhari.
RIP MA. TO THINK YOU ALMOST BECAME A GOVERNOR? WOMAN LIKE NO OTHER.
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