APC Will Rule Forever – Aisha

The Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will rule Nigeria forever.

Speaking with journalists after the inauguration of a factional chairman of the APC in Taraba State, on Monday in Abuja, the minister said the APC would not only win the presidency but more states in 2019.

The minister popularly known as ‘Mama Taraba,’ indicated her intention to contest for the governorship slot in Taraba.

Recall that she lost the governorship contest in 2015.

Recall also that the minister, last year, said she would support the presidential bid of a former vice president Atiku Abubakar in 2019 even if her principal, President Muhammadu Buhari decided to run.

Atiku, has however defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and declared to run for the presidential seat under the platform.

She said, “Crisis is normal in a big party like APC, once we can do our national convention, then we face the opposition PDP and I assure you that APC will win more states like Taraba in 2019.

“I will make sure that in my zone, I follow up and by God’s grace Gombe and Taraba (states) will be taken over in 2019. And don’t even talk about Nigeria because it’s already APC and it will continue to be APC forever.”

On her governorship aspiration, ‘Mama Taraba’ said, “I won the 2015 election, everyone knows that, even the Peoples Democratic Party. I will re-contest the election again in 2019 if God keeps me alive and well.

“It is God that gives power to whoever he desires, I won the election 2015, but God did not give me power. I will keep trusting in him and the grassroots people of Taraba and God willing, I will win the election,” she said.

On the APC factions in Taraba State, she said: “I have a right to choose who becomes the chairman of the party in the state. There is no faction in Taraba. We are very much together, there was no love lost in the state, we were never divided. It was all about political interests.”