Aisha Alhassan previously served as the senator representing the Taraba North senatorial district from 2011 to 2015.
13 Facts About Aisha Alhassan
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Aisha Alhassan was elected senator in the 2011 Nigerian Senate elections under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
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Aisha Alhassan later decamped to the main opposition party All Progressive Congress and became the gubernatorial candidate of the party in Taraba State for the 2015 Taraba State gubernatorial election.
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Aisha Alhassan was defeated in the election re-run held on 25 April 2015 by the PDP candidate Darius Ishaku, but on 7 November 2015, tribunal sacked Ishaku and declared Alhassan winner of the 11 April 2015 poll.
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Aisha Alhassan was appointed minister by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, and sworn in on 11 November 2015 after being confirmed by the Senate.
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Aisha Alhassan resigned as the Minister of Women Affairs of Nigeria on 29 September 2018.
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Aisha Alhassan was one of four women elected on the PDP ticket, the others being Nkechi Nwaogu, Helen Esuene and Nenadi Usman.
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Aisha Alhassan contested for governor in the 2015 Taraba State gubernatorial election under the Platform of the All Progressive Congress.
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Aisha Alhassan lost to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Darius Ishaku.
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Aisha Alhassan was unanimously declared as the UDP candidate for the March 2019 Taraba State gubernatorial election after the other candidate stepped down in her favour.
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Aisha Alhassan later announced her defection back to the PDP after the governorship election, which was won again by Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party, as the governor of Taraba State.
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Aisha Alhassan is widely known as "Mama Taraba", because of her increased influence in the politics of her state.
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Aisha Alhassan died in a Cairo hospital in Egypt at the age of 61 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt.