Minister of Women Affairs Sen. Aisha Alhassan, has expressed optimism that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) “will rule Nigeria forever,” assuring that her party will win more states including Taraba in 2019.
The Minister popularly known as ‘Mama Taraba’ said that the party´s coming National Convention would be peaceful, adding that the current crisis in the APC was normal for every big political party across the world.
Sen. Alhassan who was addressing newsmen shortly after the inauguration of her factional chairman of APC in Taraba Monday in Abuja, also expressed optimism that the party would win the presidency and more states in the coming 2019 election.
“Crisis is normal in a big party like APC, once we can do our national convention, then we face the opposition PDP and I assure you that APC will win more states like Taraba in 2019.
“I will make sure that in my zone I follow up and by God’s grace Gombe and Taraba will be taken over in 2019, and don’t even talk about Nigeria because its already APC and it will continue to be APC forever.”
While making her ambition to recontest governorship election in 2019, Mama Taraba said she actually won the election in 2015 but it was destined that she won’t be governor.
“I won the 2015 election everyone knows that, even the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and I will re-contest the election again in 2019 if God keeps me alive and well.
“It is God that gives power to who ever he desires, I won the election 2015, but God did not give me power, I will keep trusting in him and the grassroots people of Taraba and God willing, I will win the election,” she said.
When asked to react to factionalised APC in her state, she said: “I have a right to choose who become the chairman of the party in the state, there is no faction in Taraba. We are very much together, there was no love lost in the state, we were never divided; it was all about political interest.”
