The All Progressives Congress (APC) consensus exercise in Niger State in preparation for the local government election took another turn in Agwara local government area when angry youths destroyed the APC secretariat in the local government.

This, according to them, was because officials tried to allegedly impose incumbent chairman, Ilyasu Zakari as the consensus chairmanship candidate.

The youths claimed that all through his tenure, the local government had not felt the impact of Zakari were not ready for him to be given a second term in office.

Seeing the way the consensus exercise was going,, the youths got angry shouting ‘bana so’ which means ‘we do not agree’.

The youths went outside and pulled down the iron rod used to hold the outside shed bringing down the roof of the secretariat.

One of the youths, who refused to give his name, said the local government APC asked for it saying, “This is the implication of attempting to impose a consensus candidate on us.”

The destruction of the APC Secretariat was carried out in the presence of Police operatives who were just watching them.

In a related development, Niger State recorded its first female local government consensus candidate, Fatima Usman, from Munya local government area.

Several reports showed that several of the incumbent local government chairmen would not be returning as they failed to clinch the consensus tickets of the APC. (The Nation)