Darius Ishaku, immediate past minister of state for Niger Delta affairs, has emerged the Taraba State governorship candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ishaku emerged at the end of the exercise conducted at the PDP national secretariat, Abuja under tight security.
The primary was delayed for almost five days following the controversy over the zoning of the governorship seat and the list of delegates.
Taraba PDP leaders and stakeholders had approached the national chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu, where they informed him of the existence of an agreement signed in 2011 by PDP leaders in the state where it was agreed that Taraba South senatorial district would produce the PDP candidate in 2015.
Taraba North had served for a total of 10 years while Taraba Central where the incumbent governor, Dambaba Suntai, hails from will complete eight years in power in 2015.
Mu’azu had directed the PDP leaders, who gave him copy of the resolution to also furnish him with the minutes of the meeting where the zoning arrangement was reached.
Following this development, the former acting governor of Taraba, Garba Umar, and another aspirant, Musa John, stepped down from the race.
Ishaku is largely seen as a consensus candidate from Takum Local Government Area in Taraba South and has been an avid advocate of power shift to the southern zone of the state.
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