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Ex-Buhari’s minister, Ms Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba, is dead, a highly competent source has confirmed today, Friday, May 7. She died at 61 in Cairo, Egypt.
Mama Taraba, as was fondly called, resigned as the Minister of Women Affairs in Buhari’s government, on July 27, 2018, to contest the governorship election in Taraba.
Details of her death still remains sketchy, but will unfold very soon.
What you need to know about Mama Taraba
Former Minister of Women Affairs, Ms Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba was born on September 16, 1959, in Jalingo, Taraba State.
She was the first woman to be appointed Taraba Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice as well as the first woman to be appointed the Secretary, FCT Judicial Council on December 17, 2003.
She was appointed in 2015 into the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari after his first democratic election, but resigned on July 27, 2018 to contest the Taraba governorship election.
Mama Taraba resigned as the Minister on July 27, 2018 after the ruling APC screening committee disqualified her from the 2019 governorship primaries and following this, was unanimously declared as the candidate for the March 2019 Taraba election under UDP after the subsisting candidate of the party stepped down for her.
She was an ardent football enthusiast and supporter.
She was widely known as “Mama Taraba” on account of her enormous influence in the politics of Taraba State./ SHARE THIS