Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim, has resigned her appointment from President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.
She resigned to run for elective position in the February 16, 2019 National Assembly elections.
Hajiya Ibrahim is running to represent the Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani federal constituency of Yobe State.
Recalled that Hajiya Ibrahim had defeated her son-in law, Mohammed Bukar Abba Ibrahim, to emerge flagbearer of the House of Representatives’ seat for Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani constituency of Yobe State, last October at the All Progressives Congress (APC) the primary election in Yobe State.
She had scored 1,295 votes while her step son got 15 votes.
Hajiya Ibrahim, who was appointed minister in 2015, is the sixth minister to resign from the federal cabinet.
She confirmed to some State House Correspondents, that Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting was going to be her last.
That was shortly entered the Council Chambers for the weekly 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 7, 2018 following his selection by the Nasarawa Emirate Council and subsequent approval by Governor Tanko Umaru Al-makura.
Others that had resigned from the present federal cabinet were Hajiya Amina Mohammed, on 24 February 2017.
This followed her appointment at the United Nations as UN Deputy Secretary General.
READ ALSO: INEC registers 1.4m voters in Kwara
She served as a minister from 11 November 2015 to 15 December 2016
Also Kayode Fayemi, the incumbent governor of Ekiti State also resigned as the minister of Solid Minerals Development on May 30, 2018 to pursue his political ambition.
On September 14, the Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun had resigned following the scandal that trailed her forged National Youth Service Commission (NYSC) exemption certificate to get into public office.
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 has hinged her resignation on her disqualification in the screening for the 2019 Taraba state governorship contest by the APC National Working Committee.