“Honour is said to be given to whom deserves it. the title of SARDAUNAN GWANDARA (worldwide)bestowed on the former Governor of Nasarawa State now Senator representing Nasarawa South Umaru Tanko Almakura is indeed an honour well deserved”.These were the words of Speaker Nasarawa State House of Assembly Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi as he felicitates with the federal lawmaker and an elder statesman on his coronation today as the Sardaunan Gwandara.The Nasarawa State Number Three Citizen described the new Sardaunan Gwandara as an Elder Statesman,Great Politician and a role model whom contribution to the state and the country at large stand tall that history will continue to remember him.”I have high respect for Distinguished Senator Umar Tanko Almakura,one thing about him that remain fresh in my mind is that Almakura’s stewardship as a Governor between 2011 to 2015 during his first tenure as Governor was what encouraged me to contest election for state assembly in 2015 because I wanted to be part of his success story.”I have high respect for him and I believed in his capacity to deliver in any mandate, when he served as a Governor for Eight years he never left the state as he met it,and now as a Senator,no doubt he is breaking the barriers,he is the architect of modern Nasarawa State and with this new title and assignment I have no doubt in my mind that it will open a new chapter for Gwandara nation. I congratulates him and wish him great successes.Speaker Balarabe Abdullahi wished Sen.Tanko Almakura sound health,more wisdom and long life in piloting the affairs of his people,the state and the country at large.