The former Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, is dead.

Popularly called ‘Mama Taraba’, Jummai Alhassan was a member of the 7th Senate, having been elected on the platform of the PDP. 

She later dumped the party for All Progressives Congress, APC, and was the governorship candidate of the party in the 2015 elections in Taraba State.

She was a minister during the first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari.

She died in a Cairo hospital, Egypt.