APC Party Sacks Bauchi State Chairman, Misau Over Loss Of Governorship Election To PDP

The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Bauchi State has deepened as executives of the party, on Thursday, passed a vote of no confidence in its Chairman, Babayo Misau.

Misau’s sack was made known by the party’s Legal Adviser, Rabi’u Garba, while briefing journalists at the end of an emergency executive meeting held at the “Next Level Secretariat” of the party in Bauchi State.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday sacked its Bauchi State chairman, Babayo Misau, over alleged leadership failure and named his replacement.

Misau’s sack was made known by the party’s Legal Adviser, Rabi’u Garba, while briefing journalists at the end of an emergency executive meeting held at the “Next Level Secretariat” of the party in Bauchi State.

Garba told newsmen that 27 out of the 37 executives of the party passed a vote of no confidence in Misau during the meeting because he failed in his responsibilities as state chairman.

The APC’s legal adviser pointed out that Misau’s alleged leadership failure caused the party  losses at the last general elections, especially the governorship poll in the state.

Garba told journalists that “Following the executive committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress this morning, November 30, 2023, and having resolved and reflected on the issues and crisis bedeviling our party, particularly, what we are facing immediately after the elections up to the general elections to today, we have witnessed a lot of negativities happening within the party.

“Members are beginning to lose confidence in the administration of Bauchi State. In order to tackle the situation, the state executives decided to meet this morning and took a stand.

“Consequently, pursuant to article 17 sub article 5 of the All Progressives Congress 2022 as amended, we unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the state vhairman, Alhaji  Babayo Misau.

“And under article 17 sub 6 of the same constitution, we appoint his deputy, Alhaji Mohammed Tilde, in acting capacity. He’s now the state chairman of APC, Bauchi State.

“And as the constitution requires, we shall render the same report to the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja, and subsequently, a congress would be held for ratification.”

According to Garba who said that the decision was taken in order to save the party, “This decision followed the apparent failure of the former chairman to lead the party effectively. We have witnessed a lot of problems and issues bedeviling the party which we deemed fit to tackle by taking this decision otherwise, the party will collapse in Bauchi State.

“We know that most Bauchi State people support APC but for the lack of leadership, we have lost some seats, we couldn’t emerge victorious particularly in the gubernatorial during the last election. It is not as if people did not vote for APC, majority of Bauchi State people voted for APC but we couldn’t defend or secure our votes due to apparent failure of leadership.”

Confirming that the party has named a replacement for Misau, Garba said, “We have taken this bold decision and we make it public that Alhaji Babayo  Misau is no longer the chairman of APC in Bauchi State and we have immediately resolved and appointed his deputy, Alhaji Mohammed Tide as the State Chairman in Bauchi State.”