By The Senator representing Taraba South and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha on Tuesday explained that the vehicle he gifted to the first civilian governor of Taraba, Rev. Chipper Nyame after his presidential pardon and release from the Kuje prison was not politically motivated.
Media Outfits reported that Senator Bwacha had on August 8, 2022, welcomed the former governor with a white Mercedes-Benz jeep, following his release from the Kuje prison in Abuja.
However, the APC guber candidate while responding in Jalingo to the insinuation that his gesture was to charm the former governor to support him for his governorship bid, explained that Nyame was a father to all Tarabans and required such a welcome without political thought.
The former deputy Senate minority leader likewise unveiled that his desire to be governor of Taraba was to restore the state’s lost glories.
“I want to correct the impression that my car gesture to former governor Nyame after his release from the Kuje prison is to woo him to support me to be governor of Taraba.
“My action and continued loyalty to Nyame is not politically associated. He is my father, he is a father to all Tarabans and I believe he needed such a welcome without any political thought.
“My desire to be governor of Taraba is to restore the state’s lost glories. The state is on a precipice, this is not the Taraba we know, we didn’t start like this, and we can not continue like this.
