Former United Democratic Party (UDP) governorship candidate in Taraba, Aisha Jummai Alhassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba, has decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to Daily Trust, Alhassan, who is also a former Minister of Women Affairs, made the decision during a stakeholders meeting of UDP in Jalingo.
Giving her reason, Alhassan said her defection to PDP was based on the outcome of the opinion poll during stakeholders meeting.
According to her, she had no option than to go by the decision of the majority members of UDP and decamp to PDP.
The stakeholders meeting, held at the former Minister’s Jalingo residence, was attended by UDP representatives from 168 wards across the 16 local government areas of the state.
Newsafresh.com recalls that Alhassan was the senator representing Taraba North between 2011 and 2015 as a member of the PDP.
In 2015, she was the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress. She lost at the polls but the Election Petition Tribunal declared her winner, a decision that was reversed by the Appeal and Supreme courts.
She later became a minister under the Muhammadu buhari-led administration but resigned in 2018 and decamped to UDP.
Alhassan contested the governorship election under the platform of UDP during the 2019 general elections in Taraba and lost.