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Sen. Bwacha tackles Ishaku, says gov ‘ruined’ Taraba



The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Taraba State, Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha, on Wednesday, said Governor Darius Ishaku’s led administration has ruined the state and has taken the state backwards on several fronts.

Bwacha, who said his desire to be governor of Taraba was to restore the state’s lost glories, lamented that the state was on the precipice and needed to be saved from collapse.

“This is not the Taraba we know. We didn’t start like this and we can not continue like this.

“Imagine you are in a Keke Napep, just to discover that the rider is a Special Adviser to the governor of Taraba State. This goes to define how poverty has overwhelmed the state and its citizens.

“I was also a player when the first civilian government came on board in Taraba in 1992. We wanted to promote governance and take development to the people, but all that has been destroyed by the rumour-milling industry we have in the State today.

“I have been told from the position of authority that even the few developed infrastructure are on the point of being sold and the money taken by an individual because of his share greed for primitive accumulation of wealth and we will do everything possible to stop that and restore confidence in the people and build a better Taraba,” he said.

The senator said he was in the state to reconcile with all aggrieved members of the party to enable them to succeed in the 2023 election.

While responding to insinuations that his car gift to former Governor Jolly Nyame after he was released from the Kuje correctional centre was to woo Nyame to support his governorship ambition, Bwacha said the car gift was not politically motivated.

“I want to correct the impression that my car gesture to former governor Nyame after his release from the Kuje correctional centre is to woo him to support me to be governor of Taraba.

“My action and continued loyalty to Nyame is not politically motivated. Nyame is my father, he is a father to all Tarabans and I believe he needed such a welcome without any political thought.”

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