The interim governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku,
on Friday visited President Muhammadu Buhari at
the Presidential Villa in Abuja where they both met
behind closed-doors.
The governor later told State House correspondents
that he was at the Villa to brief the president on the
security situation in his state and to abreast Buhari
"with the happenings".
"So far, we thank God everywhere is calm. There is
peace everywhere and I came to update him (Buhari)
to let him know we are doing our best to keep the
state in a peaceful atmosphere".
The Taraba State Governorship Election Petition
Tribunal headed by Justice Musa Danladi Abubakar
had on November 7 declared Aisha Jumai Alhassan
of the All Progressive Congress (APC) winner of the
April 11, 2015 governorship election in the state.
The tribunal, having held that there was no valid
candidate from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
that contested the election, had ordered the
immediate swearing-in of the APC candidate.
The PDP candidate, Darius Ishaku, had hitherto been
declared winner of the poll by the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC).
But Ishaku told journalists that while he had
appealed against the election tribunal judgment, he
was also appealing to the people of the state to be
calm "because I still have a lot of confidence in the
judiciary and the Appeal Court will do what is correct
And right

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