By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Former Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, is dead, TheNiche has learnt.
Al-Hassan, popularly known as “Mama Taraba” was born on September 16, 1959 in Jalingo, Taraba State. She was 61.
She was appointed minister in 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari after his election.
Before the appointment, 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 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
It was shortly after the loss that President Buhari named her Minister of Women Affairs.
However, she left the 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.
She resigned as the Minister of Women Affairs on July 27, 2018 to contest the governorship election in Taraba.
Though details of the circumstances surrounding her death are still sketchy, TheNiche gathered that she died today (Friday) in Cairo, Egypt.
Details shortly…