We Did Not Ask Buhari’s Minister To Resign – APC

The National Publicity Secretary of All
Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Bolaji
Abdullahi, said on Friday the party has not
asked the Minister of Women Affairs and
Social Development, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, to
resign from the post over her recent
comments in the media.



Abdullahi also said the minister’s
appearance at the party’s National
Secretariat, Abuja, on Thursday, was not
on a summon.



Alhassan, who had been widely criticized
over the comment on her choice of
presidential aspirant for the 2019 general
election , had a closed-door meeting with
the party’s leadership in Abuja.




The minister had reportedly said she
would support former Vice President
Atiku Abubakar if he shows interest in the
2019
presidential race, saying the man had
been her “godfather.”



The comment drew the ire of some APC
stalwarts, who dubbed it anti-Buhari and
anti-party, saying she was disloyal to the
government and should resign or be
sacked.




At the end of the meeting, which lasted
about two hours, Alhassan avoided
journalists’ enquiry on her mission at the
secretariat.



Abdullahi said the minister had just a
meeting with leadership of the party, but
“was not asked to resign her position as
may be speculated.”



‘’No, that did not come up. What we said
was that we understood the context in
which she said what she said.



‘’But, it was an act of indiscretion for
someone occupying the position she is
occupying in the party to make that kind
of statement,’’ he said.


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