First Female Governor-Elect in Nigeria: Meet Aisha Jummai

Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan is a Nigerian politician who was elected
Senator for the Taraba North constituency of Taraba State, Nigeria in
the April 2011 Federal elections.

She ran on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. She later
decamped to the main opposition party All Progressive Congress (APC)
and she is now Gubernatorial Candidate of Taraba State under the
opposition All Progressive Congress (APC). Currently governor elected
on the 11th of April 2015 .

Taraba state. She is now the first ever female governor in the federal
republic of Nigeria.

Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan is a Mumuye. A lawyer by training, Jummai
became Taraba State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice. She
was appointed the Chief Registrar of the High Court of the Federal
Capital Territory, Abuja on 17 December 2003. After she retired from
service she went into business.

Senator, former Ambassador Manzo Anthony. It was said that she was a
protégé of former Governor Jolly Nyame, who wanted her to defeat
Manzo, thinking he could then defeat her. However, after winning the
primaries Jummai ran an energetic election campaign, managing to gain
Christian support despite herself being Muslim. She was also generous
with her money, feeding the delegates and travelling with a motorcade
of plush jeeps.

In the 9 April 2011 elections, Jummai won 114,131 votes, followed by
Jolly Nyame of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) with 92,004 votes.
She was one of four women elected on the PDP ticket, the others being
Nkechi Nwaogu (Abia Central), Helen Esuene (Akwa Ibom South) and
Nenadi Usman (Kaduna South).
Following the election, she was said to have been in competition for
the Senate President seat.

Aisha Jummai's younger brother is former Senator Abdulazeez Ibrahim.
She actively supports the Taraba State Football Association.