She said she wanted to contest the seat in 2019 but bowed to the contrary opinion of her husband, Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, the immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission.
Dele Moses, Ilorin
Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development in Kwara State, Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu, has become the first political appointee in the cabinet of the state government to resign in order to participate in the primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The government had, in a memo on Tuesday, asked any appointee in the cabinet seeking elective office to resign on or before Friday, April 15 in line with the new Electoral Act which dictates that political appointees must resign their appointment before participating in a primary election.
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Modibbo-Kawu disclosed on Thursday that she had resigned as the commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development in line with the directive of the government.
She made the disclosure when she paid a thank-you visit to the Correapondents’ chapel of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) after her resignation.
The former commissioner hinted that she intended to contest for the seat of the Ilorin East,/Ilorin South Federal Constituency on the platform of the APC.
She said she would soon make a formal declaration of her ambition at her constituency.
She explained that she is, by birth, from Ilorin East Local Government Area and, by marriage, Ilorin South.
The former commissioner who said she had all along been a grassroots person in her constituency explained that she had wanted to contest the seat in 2019 but bowed to the contrary opinion of her husband, Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, the immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission.
She said this time around the husband gave her the go-ahead and that it was after that approval that she resigned from her appointed office.
Modibbo-Kawu who thanked the state governor, Abdurahman Abdulrazaq for the opportunity to serve the state said that opportunity made her contribute her quota to the education development of the state and be closer to the grassroots.
She said if she wins the APC ticket and, eventually, the seat, she would keep her contribution to the development of the state through the development of her constituency.