Professor Jerome Nyameh, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has officially resigned from the party and declared his intention to contest the 2027 governorship election in Taraba State under the Accord Party. This development is expected to boost the Accord Party's chances in the upcoming election.
Resignation and Declaration
Addressing journalists on Tuesday in Jalingo, Nyameh stated that his decision followed deep consultations with stakeholders across the state, including elders, youths, women, professionals, and traditional leaders. He described his resignation from the PDP as a moral responsibility to rescue Taraba from economic decline, insecurity, poor governance, and rising debt.
Nyameh accused successive leadership in the state of failing to harness Taraba's vast agricultural, tourism, and mineral potentials for development. He lamented that despite the state's rich resources, it remains underdeveloped, with abandoned roads, struggling hospitals, underfunded schools, rising unemployment, and persistent insecurity and tribal divisions.
Concerns Over Debt
Nyameh also expressed concern over the state's growing debt profile, alleging that borrowed funds had not translated into visible infrastructural or economic progress. According to him, this situation has placed future generations under heavy financial burden without corresponding development.
Unveiling the Taraba Therapy Agenda
Nyameh unveiled what he termed the Taraba Therapy Agenda, a development blueprint anchored on a 3Rs Solution Framework: Recovery, Resource Utilization, and Renegotiation. The framework aims to address the state's debt challenges and reposition the economy.
He explained that the framework would focus on agriculture, industrialization, healthcare, education, youth empowerment, and economic recovery. Our mission, he stated, is to restore hope, stabilize governance, revive the economy, and reconnect government with the people.
Security and Youth Empowerment
On security, the Accord Party governorship hopeful pledged to prioritize peace-building through intercommunal dialogue, poverty reduction, and inclusive governance. He also promised to empower youths through entrepreneurship programmes, vocational training centres, and support for cash crop production, including cocoa, coffee, cashew, sesame seed, and soybean farming.
We will establish vocational centres where our youths will become employers of labour rather than job seekers, he said.
Call for Unity
Calling on residents to support his movement, Nyameh said the 2027 election should transcend party, ethnic, and religious divisions. This movement is bigger than politics. It is about the future of our children and the destiny of Taraba State, he added. He pledged to run a peaceful, issue-based, and people-centred campaign ahead of the governorship election.
