Why I want to be Taraba State Governor – Ishaku

The immediate past Minister of State for the Niger Delta, Architect Darius Dickson Ishaku, has said that his mission in Taraba State if voted into power as governor in 2015 will be to move the North-East state forward from being crisis-ridden to economic emancipation.
Architect Ishaku, last week, obtained the governorship nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and spoke with journalists at his residence on why he quit the Federal Executive Council to pursue the gubernatorial ambition.
He said, “As you’re aware, Taraba State is one of the troubled states in Nigeria today. Since Governor Danbaba Suntai was involved in a plane crash in 2012, things have not been the same in my state any longer. Peace has eluded us. What we hear now is war, war, war. There has not been infrastructural and economic development. The state is indebted to the tune of N10 billion, and you can’t point to what the money has been used for. There is, therefore, the need for an intervention, and I want to intervene by taking the bull by the horn. In summary, what I intend to do is to change things. We want to bring back peace. We have to do things that would be of benefit to the state. We have to redirect things.”
According to the former minister, in the last few years, the state has been in a state of conflict of all sorts to the point that tourism, which should have been a high network income earner for the state has been neglected. Several industries, he added, have been abandoned, to the point that no one could talk about setting up new ones.