Bauchi lawmaker blames Buhari over party’s crisisThe ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 27 local council chairmanship seats in the elections held at the weekend.Chairman of the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC), Ethelbert Ibebuchi, said in the case of the councillorship seats, the APC got 636, Accord (one), Rebuild Party (one), PRP (one) and COWA (one). The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), among others, boycotted the exercise. Meanwhile, a lawmaker in Bauchi State House of Assembly, Aminu Tukur, has chided the leadership style of President Muhammadu Buhari in handling the APC, attributing the crisis rocking the party to the President. “We decided to go to the APP so that we could have the mandate of the ordinary man. Unfortunately, the very ordinary person who usually complained about being neglected by the present government in the state, decided otherwise.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2018 04:30 UTC