UPDATE: Another Buhari’s Minister Resigns

The minister of state for environment, Ibrahim Jibrin has announced his resignation from the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.

This new development was revealed at the federal executive council meeting on Wednesday.

Jibrin’s resignation follows his emergence as the 13th emir of Nasarawa town in Nasarawa local government rea of the state.

The Nasarawa emirate council had settled for the choice of the man who had been overseeing the ministry of environment since the exit of Amina Mohammed, who left Buhari’s cabinet after she was appointed deputy secretary-general of the United Nations in 2017.

At a valedictory session held in honour of Jibrin, the president referred to him as “Your Highness”.

Buhari had earlier congratulated Jibrin on his new appointment.

“President Buhari congratulates the Minister of State for Environment, Hon. I.U Jibril on his selection as the 13th Emir of Nasarawa Emirate,” Bashir Ahmad, a personal assistant to the president, had tweeted last week.

“He urges him to build on the legacies of his predecessor and promote peace and unity in the emirate.”

Apart from Mrs. Amina Mohammed, the former minister of women affairs, Mrs. Aisha Alhassan was the recent federal appointee to quit the cabinet.

Hers was purely for political reason after her party then, All Progressive Congress declined her the governorship ticket for Taraba over allegation of disloyalty.