Emmanuel Awari-Jalingo
Residents of Taraba state have vowed to resist any attempt by Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku to impose his anointed candidate as governor of the State.
According to them, it was better for the State to function without a governor than for the people to experience another Ishaku’s bad style of leadership leading to dilapidated infrastructures, uncomplicated projects amongst others.
A cross section of the people of the State who bear their minds while speaking to our Correspondent in jalingo, Taraba State capital said the State had gone through what they described as decadence of democracy during the seven and half years of Ishaku’s administration.

The residents who expressed their feelings and their expectations of the next Governor for the State prayed God to give the State a person with kid heart similar to the former governor Jolly Nyame or late Danbaba Suntai that can restore the lost glories of development of the State.

They decry the current era of infrastructural decay and what they described as the abortive 8 years of Governor Darius Ishaku in the state, and pray that the next governor should be touched with the spirit of development to return the state to her former position of greatness among Nigerian states.

Some of the esidents, Mr. Eric Nashuka Wukari, Jubri Ando, and festus Agbu, while particularly lamenting the gory State of Jolly Nyame stadium Jalingo, Taraba state college of nursing and midwifery Jalingo, Taraba state specialist hospital Jalingo and the Taraba Motel Jalingo which hitherto were the revenue hubs of the state, also expressed that governor Ishaku has abandoned the institution to decay without constructing new ones to fix in their position.
“We wish to have another Jolly Nyame or Danbaba Suntai to be the next governor of Taraba state. We don’t want another Darius Ishaku who would come and kill all the working sector without establishing any to fix in the position.
“You can imagine the state of the Jolly Nyame stadium Jalingo, Taraba state college of nursing and midwifery Jalingo, Taraba state specialist hospital Jalingo and the Taraba Motel Jalingo which hitherto were the revenue hubs of the state. This great institution are decaying to the last degree but the governor doesn’t mind to rescue them from becoming scrap and the specialist hospital is gradually becoming a disease contracting center due to lack of running cost to the institution since seven years ago.
“No meaningful project has been executed in the state since 2015 and the state debt profile has risen from 117 billion to over 300 billion naira.
“All the revenue generating institution you see in Taraba were established by either, Jolly Nyame or Late. governor Danbaba Suntai. We have never seen a poor government like the one of governor Darius Ishaku, he has failed completely, he has no meaningful project to be point at since 2015. He embarked on the construction of 192 km. Of rural roads since 2015 but up till now, non of the road has been completed and the only greenhouse he constructed has since collapsed.
“The best thing God would do to us as a people of Taraba state is to ensure that an Ishaku type is not elected again as governor in the state. If a Nyame or Danbaba type is elected as governor, Taraba state would regain her lost position of greatness and be in the contending position of development amongst great Nigeria states” The residents declared.