The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South South region of Nigeria has called for the expulsion of the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan from the party for saying she would not support President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term in 2019.

The National Vice Chairman, South South of the party, Ntufan Hilliard Eta while describing Alhassan’s action as the “highest level of disloyalty” said the most honourable thing for her to have done was to resign her appointment to campaign for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar whom she openly declared she would support.

Eta stated this during an interactive session with newsmen in Calabar, Cross Rivers State on Sunday after a thanksgiving service to mark the safe return of President Muhammadu Buhari from medical vacation in the United Kingdom which was held at St. Charles Lwanga Parish, Essien.

“I think what she has done is the highest level of disloyalty. I believe that as somebody who believes as strongly as she does about her support for Atiku, the best and most honourable thing to do would be to resign and begin the campaign for the Atiku presidency.

“But for you to sit in a Buhari presidency and be talking about the presidency of another person, it smacks of irresponsibility and as a member of the National Working Committee, I would do my utmost best to make sure that she is sanctioned as a member of that government. I would call for her suspension or even expulsion from the party,” Eta said.