It is reported that the Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state has
berated Women Affairs and Social Development minister Jummai Alhassan
over her comments on 2019 presidential election candidacy and asked her
to resign. It is gathered that she had confirmed a BBC report where
she expressed preference to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar against
her boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, for the 2019 presidential ticket
of APC. Amosun, who spoke at a book launch in Abeokuta, on Saturday
said although Alhassan was entitled to her opinion, but he expected her
to have tendered her resignation immediately after the comments. The
governor said that Alhassan was entitled to her opinion but that he
would have saluted her if she had honourably resigned her appointment
because no one could blow both hot and cold at the same time. “I
would have saluted her if she had resigned but falling short of
resigning has taken everything away from what she had said. Well, I am
not Mr President and I know that at the appropriate time he will review
things.
“For somebody to have come out and say such thing means
she might be working against the government and she will not want that
government to succeed.
“That is my own believe although I may be wrong but if I am in her shoes she should have done that and resigned.’’ Amosun
expressed doubt if the Minister desired the success of the Buhari – led
administration since she had declared support for Atiku ahead of the
2019 presidential election. He declared that nobody had the right to
stop Buhari from contesting for the presidential election in 2019 except
he himself decides against on health ground.
“On this 2019, the only thing that can probably prevent Mr. president from contesting is on health ground,” he said. Amosun
who commended Buhari for the great positive changes he had effected in
Nigeria, said he was the appropriate person the nation needed when he
took over the reins of power.
“If not for this administration of President Muhammad Buhari, only God knows where Nigeria would have been now.
“Again
I am saying it, the only thing that can stop Mr President is on health
ground but as we can see today, Mr President is back rejuvenating and
very soon it would be clear for everybody to see that Mr president is so
well now.
” I commend the President for his performance on the
three cardinal programmes of his administration because he has performed
better in the areas of security, economy and the fight against
corruption,” he said. -NAN
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