*As FG Budgets N140b for Women Empowerment
in 2017
BY ANDY ASEMOTA,
The wife of Katsina State Governor, Hajiya
Hadiza Aminu Bello Masari, today endorsed the
Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha
Jummaia Alhassan, otherwise known as ‘Mama
Taraba,’ for 2019 governorship race of Taraba
State.
Senator Alhassan lost the Taraba governorship
seat to the incumbent governor following court
decision after 2015 general election.
Speaking at the townhall meeting with women
groups on Government Enterprise and
Empowerment Prograame (GEEP) / National
Women Empowerment Fund (NAWEF) held in
Katsina with the minister in attendance, the
governor’s wife said Alhassan has demonstrated
high capacity to be the first female governor in
Nigeria.
Hadiza Masari, who noted that the minister had
established an enviable legacy in women
empowerment in the country since she assumed
office, assured that men and women of goodwill
in Taraba and beyond who believed in Alhassan’s
emergence as governor of Taraba State would
rally to her support in 2019.
Addressing journalists after the townhall
meeting, the minister disclosed that the Federal
Government budgeted about N140 for women
empowerment programmes this fiscal year.
She added that the government would channel
more than N40.6 billion month