The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Abba-Ibrahim has submitted her resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari during the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting in Abuja.
Mrs Abba-Ibrahim is resigning from her ministerial position to contest the February 16 House of Representatives election in her home-state, Yobe.
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She will join others in a race to contest for the Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani Federal Constituency seat in Your State.
Mrs Abba-Ibrahim, who is wife to former Governor Bukar Abba-Ibrahim of Yobe State, had, last year contested against and defeated her son-in law, Mohammed Bukar-Ibrahim, to pick the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in October 2018.
