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THE national working committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has asked Aisha Alhassan, minister of Women Affairs, to honourably resign over her scathing remarks on President Muhammadu Buhari. Inuwa Abdukadir, a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC, and National Vice Chairman, Northwest zone, has called for the resignation of the minister on Friday, September 8, in Abuja, when speaking with journalists.

Abdukadir also warned, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, to exercise restraint in the statements he makes public describing Atiku’s recent comments about Buhari and the party as misleading. “These statements give an impression of a crack in the house and in the party or that the party is not doing all that which it ought to. As leaders, we shouldn’t be seen as joining issues in the public domain but since he has made a public statement, the public is entitled to get the other side or be told the truth,” he said.

 

The call for Alhassan’s resignation is sequel to the emergence of a video footage of her allegedly pledging to support the presidential ambition of Atiku Abubakar.

 

Mr. Abdulkadir said that the president will not act in a spontaneous manner, “rather, it should be the minister that will have to resign based on moral grounds.”

 

On the issue of Mr. Buhari’s alleged promise not to go for second term, he said: “Whether Buhari has said that he would re-contest or not is immaterial; what is material is that a serving Minister should not be seen making public statement suggesting that they are not on the same page with the team because she is a member of a team.”

 

This was followed by an interview she granted the BBC Hausa service where she said that even if Buhari decided to re-contest in 2019, she would still support the former vice president.

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