The Taraba State Chairman of the All Pregressive
Congress (APC), Alhaji Hassan Jika Ardo has
described the administration of governor Darius
Ishaku as autocratic.

Ardo, who stated this yesterday in Jalingo during an
interview with journalists alleged that the only arm
of government that is functioning in the state is the
executive.
“Ishaku as I speak with you has completely bought
the judiciary and the legislative arm of government
in the state, he has used the state government
resources to render them useless, look at the recent
election of Mark Usani as speaker of state house of
assembly, imagine, governor Ishaku, the chief judge
of the state and the speaker of the house are from
the same zone, in the history of Nigeria, this kind of
thing has never happened anywhere expect Taraba
State” he said.

He said that the executive which is the only
functioning arm of government in the state always
direct the judiciary and the legislative arms of
government to do their biddings.

According to him, since the appeal court verdict that
nullified the election of the former Speaker, Mr. Abel
Peter Diah, the house failed to elect a new speaker
until few days ago when governor Ishaku directed
the house to elect a speaker who came from the
some local government with him.

He added that the entire process that characterized
the auctioning of more than 400 government
vehicles and plants was fraudulent.
He alleged that due process was not followed in the
auctioning.

“The auctioneer used by the government was a
licensed auctioneer and was not qualified to carry
out the exercise” he said.

Culled from The Leadership