Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan popularly known as ‘Mama Taraba’ has been caught in a videotape endorsing the 2019 presidential ambition of Nigeria’s former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
In the video which was shared with SIGNAL on Wednesday morning, Senator Alhassan who is a member of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), under President Muhammadu Buhari is seen speaking in Hausa language to Atiku during the last Sallah holidays at an unknown location suspected to be one of the private residences of the Turakin Adamwa. A part translation of her words read; “Your Excellency, my father and by the grace of God, President in 2019”.
The Buhari presidency was yet to react at the time of this report.
Recall that in July 2017, Senator Alhassan had visited the Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ahmed Makarfi at the PDP headquarters in Abuja.