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Promised to keep Boko Haram and ISWAP out of Taraba State as the insurgency spread across the North-East.

Repeatedly called for deployment of special federal security forces after intelligence indicated the groups were planning camps in the state, and accused some traditional rulers of harbouring insurgents, threatening to dethrone any found complicit; the threat was contained without a major incursion, though the state remained on alert through the tenure.

Promised lasting peace between farmers and herders through grazing-route policy and peace meetings with neighbouring Benue State.

Despite policy formulation on grazing routes and cross-border peace engagement early in the tenure, relative peace remained elusive and farmer-herder violence continued to affect the state's agricultural potential.

Promised to strengthen Taraba's weak IGR base.

The state revenue board's IGR grew from about ₦4.5 billion in 2016 to ₦5.9 billion in 2017, continuing into 2018.

Campaigned on accountable management of Taraba's treasury.

The EFCC alleges Ishaku diverted about ₦27 billion from contingency funds belonging to the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs and various local governments; a separate petition alleged his younger sister used pseudo-companies and hoax contracts to launder roughly ₦39 billion out of the treasury, including loans of ₦9.4 billion and ₦10 billion taken in late 2015.