2019: Many Buhari’s ministers share Aisha Alhassan’s view—Junaid Mohammed

As the fireworks for and against the current Women Affairs Minister, Senator Aisha Alhassan, for declaring support for former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, while serving Buhari, continue, former Presidential Adviser, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has said that Nigerians should commend her for having the courage to speak the truth rather than deceive the president.

Mohammed, a Second Republic lawmaker, told Saturday Vanguard that what Alhassan said was nothing strange, as many other ministers in the Buhari cabinet have in the past expressed reservation about his ability to seek re-election in 2019 going by his falling health. “What the minister has said is nothing new but the truth. Others in the cabinet of Buhari have been making such statements but in hushed tones. It is only that Alhassan had the courage and boldness to speak out and people should not chastise her because she has nothing to lose by staying or leaving Buhari’s cabinet,” Mohammed said.

Mohammed, who was also a delegate to the 2014 National Conference, stated that the minister’s comment was a demonstration of her frustration with the Buhari government as not many people from Taraba State, who had worked with her to install the Buhari government, had been given any serious attention by the government.
Vanguard, September 9, 2017

 

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