Taraba 2027: Bwacha, Kefas clash over $268m ECOWAS bank financing

Bwacha demands accountability implicit Taraba’s $268m EBID installation arsenic Kefas campy denies disbursement

The governmental rivalry betwixt Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, has taken a caller turn, with the absorption campaigner demanding explanations implicit a $268 cardinal financing installation secured from the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID).

However, the governor’s run assembly has insisted that the funds person not been disbursed.

The controversy, which has brought nationalist borrowing and fiscal accountability into the emerging 2027 governorship contest, centres connected 3 financing agreements reportedly signed betwixt the Taraba State Government and EBID successful June 2026 for large industrial, cultivation and renewable vigor projects.

While Bwacha has questioned the presumption of the facility, demanding details of its disbursement, expenditure and economical benefits, the Kefas Campaign Council has dismissed his allegations ...