Breaking: Minister of state for Foreign Affairs Khadija Ibrahim resigns from Buhari’s cabinet
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim, has resigned her appointment from President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.
She hinged her action on the need to run for elective office come February 2019 to represent the Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani federal constituency of Yobe State.
She defeated her son-in law, Mohammed Bukar Abba Ibrahim to emerge flag bearer of House of representative seat for Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani constituency of Yobe State last year’s October at the All Progressive Congress (APC) the primary election.
Following Hajiya Ibrahim resignation, she became the sixth minister to resigned from the federal cabinet.
Buhari appointed her to man the Ministry of Foreign Affairs alongside Geoffrey Onyeama in 2015.
She confirmed to some State House Correspondents that Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting was going to be her last, shortly before the commencement of the meeting.
Her resignation comes a month after the former Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jubril, resigned following his declaration as the 13th Emir on December 7th, 2018 following his selection by the Nasarawa Emirate Council and subsequent approval by Governor Tanko Umaru Almakura.
Others that have resigned are Hajiya Amina Mohammed, on 24 February 2017. This followed her appointment at the United Nations as UN Deputy Secretary General.
She served as a minister from 11 November 2015 to 15 December 2016
Kayode Fayemi, the governor of Ekiti state also resigned as the minister of Solid minerals development on May 30, 2018 to pursue his political ambition.
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan, also known as Mama Taraba, resigned from the cabinet and from the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Alhassan attributed her disqualification in the screening for the 2019 Taraba state governorship contest by the APC National Working Committee as reason for her resignation.
