assignments. In January 2010 she returned to the PDP, citing injustice and insensitivity of the ANPP national secretariat and factional infighting in the state chapter of the party as reasons. After taking her seat in the Senate in May 2007, Akwashiki was appointed to committees on States & Local Government, Inter-Parliamentary Affairs, Communications, Banking, Insurance & Other Financial Institutions and Women and Youth. In a mid-term evaluation of Senators in May 2009, ThisDay noted that she sponsored a bill to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau and contributed brilliantly to debate in plenary and committee assignments. In January 2010 she returned to the PDP, citing injustice and insensitivity of the ANPP national secretariat and factional infighting in the state chapter of the party as reasons. In March 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Senator Patricia Akwashiki as the Minister of Information. In 2018 Akwashiki declared interest to run for governor of Nasarawa State predicting that she would be Nigeria's first elected female governor but failed to pick her party's ticket to run in the general election in 2019. References Living people 1953 births People from Nasarawa State Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria) Members of the House of Representatives (Nigeria) 21st-century Nigerian politicians 21st-century Nigerian women politicians Information and communications ministers of Nigeria Women government ministers of Nigeria