Mama Taraba Emerges Nigeria's First Female Governor

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Aisha Alhassan has been declared the winner of the

April 11 governorship election in Taraba state, thus

making her Nigeria’s first female governor-elect.

This was after a Taraba state governorship election

petition tribunal sitting in Abuja nullified the election of

Governor Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic

Party (PDP).

APC’s Aisha Jummai Alhassan has emerged as

Nigeria’s first female governor

According to Vanguard, the tribunal headed by Justice

Musa Danladi Abubakar declared Alhassan, popularly

referred to as Mama Taraba, as the bonafide winner of

the election.

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress

(APC) is also among the ministerial nominees who

were screened and confirmed by the Nigerian Senate.

Reliable sources in Taraba have also confirmed the

report to Naij.com. This means President

Muhammadu Buhari will have to shop for a

replacement for the minister-designate in the coming

days.

Naij.com’s sources in Abuja disclosed further that the

APC and its governorship candidate had challenged the

victory and declaration of Ishaku as the winner of the

election.

At the hearing, Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN), the

counsel to the petitioners, made an adoption in his final

written addresses, urging the tribunal to return the first

petitioner, Alhassan, as the elected governor of the

state. 

The counsel to the first, second and third respondents,

however, prayed the court to dismiss the petition,

saying it lacks merit, while Solomon Akuna (SAN),

the counsel to the PDP, also prayed that the petition

be dismissed because the petitioners could not prove

their case.

This new development further quells reports which

made rounds that Alhassan’s nomination by the

president may have been a way of compensating her

from losing out at the polls earlier this year.

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