Sokoto APC Demands PMB To Throw Aisha Out Of #TheList

The Sokoto state chapter of the APC party has sent an official letter demanding that Muhammadu Buhari erases Aisha Abubakar’s name from the list of the ministerial nominees on the grounds she is not even a party member.

Abubakar should be erased from #TheList, insist Sokoto state APC leaders

Tensions are rising around Aisha Abubakar’s nomination for the ministerial position. Shortly after the All Progressives Congress chapter in Sokoto state rejected her candidature, the APC leaders in the state have sent Muhammadu Buhari the letter, officially demanding he reject the nomination of Aisha Abubakar for a ministerial position on the grounds that she is not even a card-carrying member of the party.
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The APC leaders in Sokoto state insist that her nomination violates the constitution of Nigeria as well as the conventions of the ruling party. They sent Buhari the letter signed by twenty three local government chairmen of the party in Sokoto, demanding to replace Aisha Abubakar with any other relevant nominee, no matter male of female.
“Miss Aisha Abubakar, the ministerial nominee from Sokoto was never a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for her to be qualified and if at all she is a member of any political party circumstantially she must be a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),” they stated in their letter to Buhari, also adding: “given the fact that her uncle Col. Sambo Dasuki (Rtd), the National Security Adviser, NSA to former president Goodluck Jonathan was more than anyone else personified efforts to ensure the victory of the PDP in Sokoto state, the north west zone and Nigeria, it is equally a notorious fact that he maximally used his then official position to ensure that APC lost elections inclusive of the use of cohesion against members of the APC in Sokoto state.”
The rejection of Aisha Abubakar came after the party held a stakeholders meeting with Governor Aminu Tambuwal.
The state chairman of the ruling party, Usman Danmadamin-Isa, who addressed newsmen shortly after the meeting, said that the decision to reject Abubakar was unanimous.
Danmadamin-Isa said: “The meeting had discussed the nomination of one lady called Aisha as the nominee from Sokoto state and we have rejected her nomination. We have out rightly rejected her nomination because she is not a card-carrying member of the party in the state and nobody knows her, while she knows nobody in the state.”
On Thursday, October 15, the Senate received a petition against the ministerial nominee from Sokoto state, Aisha Abubakar.
This petition was presented to the Senate by Ibrahim Gobir representing Sokoto east senatorial district.
He said the highlight of the petition was that she was to be replaced by a more competent representative of the state whereby he laid the petition on the table of the Senate president, Bukola Saraki.
He said: “I have a petition from Sokoto against the nominee from Sokoto state, Aisha Abubakar.“
She is not the first nominee to face a petition. Two ministerial nominees, Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers state) and Hajiya Amina Mohammed (Kaduna state) appeared before the Senate committee on ethics, privileges and public petitions on Monday, October 12, to respond to petitions against their nominations as minister.
Besides that, three days ago the APC leaders in Adamawa claimed that Muhammadu Buhari made a huge political blunder submitting Muhammadu Bello from Adamawa state as the ministerial nominee.

“As a party, we don’t know the nominee because as the organizing secretary of the party who is in charge of registration of members, I doubt if Bello is even a card carrying member of the party,” the organizing secretary of the APC in Adamawa state, Mallam Ahmed Lawal, told the press, and he also claimed that Bello worked against the APC during the recent general elections.