Bwacha Emmanuel
2023 Gubernatorial Elections (2023)
Bwacha Emmanuel, a former senator and ex-commissioner in Taraba, ran for governor on the APC ticket in 2023 and lost after polling 142,502 votes.
Born: 15 December 1962 (age 63)
State: Taraba
Party: All Progressives Congress (APC)
Gender: Male
Qualifications: PRIMARY SCHOOL CERTIFICATE GCE LL.B
Running Mate: Iliyasu Idris Kirim
Bio
Bwacha Emmanuel, born on 15 December 1962 in Donga, contested the 2023 Taraba governorship election as APC candidate with Iliyasu Idris Kirim as running mate and polled 142,502 votes. He is described as a Nigerian politician who served as senator for Taraba South from 2011 to 2023.
According to the profile, he first won the Senate seat on the PDP platform in 2011 and retained it in 2015 and 2019. It adds that in the April 2011 election he scored 106,172 votes against 80,256 for an ACN opponent, and that his emergence followed PDP primaries in which he was favored by then-Governor Danbaba Suntai.
The biography also states he holds an education diploma in public administration from the University of Calabar, served as Taraba State Commissioner of Agriculture from 1999 to 2003 under the Jolly Nyame administration, represented the Donga/Ussa/Takum constituency in the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007, chaired the House Committee on Police Affairs, and lost a Senate bid in 2007.