Women Affairs Minister Resigns, Dumps APC

Aisha Alhassan

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Aisha Alhassan, has purportedly surrendered her arrangement. 

As indicated by The Cable, Suleiman Dantosho, her media associate, affirmed this on Saturday morning and made accessible duplicates of her acquiescence letter. 

He said Alhassan has likewise pulled back her participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 

"I compose with a considerable measure of regard to educate Mr President of my choice to leave my arrangement as a clergyman of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and as an individual from the All Progressives Congress (APC)," the letter read. 

"Mr President may likewise wish to review that I wrote to advise you of my expectation to again challenge for legislative head of my state in pending 2019 decision under the umbrella of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and you again generous favored my aim and wished me well through a letter by and by marked by Mr President which I acknowledge and will perpetually esteem. 

"Sir, I acquired the APC designation shapes and went for the gathering's screening on Thursday, the twentieth of September 2018 alongside ten (10) different contenders for the governorship of my state, Taraba. I, with your authorization, continued to Taraba on the 23rd of September 2018, to get ready for the presidential and governorship primaries at that point planned for the 25th and 29th of September 2018 separately. 

"While getting ready for the primaries in Jalingo, I got with the stun and overwhelm that I was precluded and not cleared to challenge for the 2019 governorship by the National Working Committee of the gathering (APC). No reason was given for my preclusion." 

Succinct News had before detailed that Alhassan and the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, who is from Oyo State, were screened out of the challenge for the governorship essential by the National Working Committee of the gathering. 

The National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had in a question and answer session in Abuja on Friday featured the reasons the two Ministers were excluded.