Coronavirus
After 87 days, Ishaku returns to Taraba bans handshake over Coronavirus
Taraba Governor, Darius Ishaku on Thursday returned to Taraba after spending 87 days away from the State.
Ishaku who arrived Jalingo on a charted flight IZY Air touched down at the Danbaba Suntai Airport at about 4pm.
The Governor while addressing journalists at the Airport announced a ban on handshakes in the State in the meantime to check the spread of Coronavirus in the State.
He enjoined the people of the State to promote personal hygiene and practice hand washing using soap and sanitizers to check the spread of the dreaded virus.
“For now, people should avoid hand shakes and imbibe the culture of personal hygiene as recommended by the World Health Organisation.
“We don’t have test kits available here and we must prioritise personal hygiene to avoid the virus.
“People should avoid travelling to places where cases of the virus has been confirmed. Business transactions and conversations with people in such places can be done online,”he said.
Ishaku told journalists during the interview that he was involved in a domestic accident and that he underwent surgery during his long stay away from the State.
According to him, he was yet to fully recover from the accident, adding that he was following his doctors advise while he recuperates.
He thanked the people of the State for keeping faith with him while he was away, noting that “contrary to media reports in some quarters governance in Taraba did not suffer while I was away.
“Road projects are going on and the act of governance generally is going on smoothly,” he said.
Ishaku left the state on December 22, 2019 after presenting the 2020 budget to the state house of Assembly.
The long stay of Governor Ishaku from the State generated controversy between the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) in the State and the ruling People’s Democratic Party.
State Chairman of APC in the State, Barr. Ibrahim Ibrahim El-Sudi had called on the Governor to transmit power to his Deputy Engr Haruna Manu or risk impeachment.
This is even as the party threatened legal action against the Governor should he continue to stay away from the state illegally.
But the PDP leadership in the State had consistently maintained that the Governor did nothing wrong to warrant impeachment and accused the APC of overheating the polity.
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