Aisha Alhassan Asked To Resign ‘For Pledging Allegiance To Atiku’‎

‘For pledging allegiance to Atiku,’ the Minister of Women’s Affairs, Aisha Alhassan has been asked to vacate her office.

Alhassan, it would be recalled, had aligned herself with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, while disowning President Muhammadu Buhari, in advance of the 2019 presidential election.

“If today Mr. President says he is running in 2019 I will go to him respectfully and thank him for giving me an opportunity to serve and then tell him that I have to resign because my political father may be running,” Alhassan had told Reuters.

In reaction to her outburst, the National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), North-west, Inuwa Abdulkadir, asked the minister to immediately quit her office as minister.

Alhassan “Should have respected her principal by not making her statement public,” Abdulkadir said, adding that President Buhari needn’t ask the minister to resign, “rather, it should be the minister that will have to resign based on moral grounds,” the APC chieftain said.

Speaking on Atiku’s allegation that he had been sidelined by the administration of President Buhari, Abdulkadir said:

“By virtue of his office and his age, Atiku is qualified to be a statesman but when you reach that stature and age, there are certain things you have to come to terms with, which are to exhibit a high sense of decorum in your conduct. You have to guard what you say, how you say it and when you say it because what is expected of you as a statesman is nothing but factual.

“More importantly, there should be some decorum in what we do. People who have attained those high privileged positions should know that they have attained certain status in the society and cannot afford to talk anyhow.”

“Atiku should be most concerned about is the success of the current APC-led administration.”

“The reason is that the North-west is the most populous zone in terms of the APC membership and in terms of electoral victory. That is apart from having seven APC state governors, and 20 out of the 21 senators in the zone are from the APC,” he said.