Shehu Sani returns to APC amid El-Rufai, Sani clash

• Shehu Sani returns to APC amid El-Rufai, Sani clash
  
• By Jeffrey Agbo
  
• Senator Shehu Sani has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

• Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State welcomed Sani and other politicians in Kaduna to the APC at a rally held on Saturday at Murtala Square.

• Sani also assured Sani and the other 49 political stalwarts that defected to the APC that they would enjoy the same rights and privileges like every member of the party.

• Sani said that there was no difference between a party member that joined recently and the ones that have been in APC for years.

• He said: “Someone who joined APC today and the one who has been a foundation member 10 years ago, they are of the same status. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges.”

• Sani urged the decampees to notify their supporters of the readiness of APC to accept them into the party as their doors were still open to accept more defectors.

• According to him, the popularity and acceptability of APC is because of the good leadership at both the state and federal levels.

• Sani added that the party has come to stay in Kaduna State, the entire North and Nigeria as a whole.

• “In the 2027 election, the electorate will vote for APC in all the elections, from top to bottom. At the top, our leader, President Bola Tinubu will be elected.

• “At the state level, the party will be voted for at the gubernatorial, National and State Assemblies elections, by the grace of God,” he said.

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• The governor promised that more projects would be executed in all the nooks and crannies of the state irrespective of party affiliations and ethno-religious considerations.

• “Politics is different from governance. We will be fair to all, whether or not they voted for us, because that is the oath of office that we swore to uphold as leaders,” he further said.

• Sani, who argued that leaders were not infallible and they were bound to make mistakes like anyone, pleaded with the led to always point out their mistakes with a view to correcting them.

• Prominent amongst those who decamped to APC were former governor Muktar Ramalan-Yero, Sani, Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi, the gubernatorial candidate of NNPP in the 2023 general elections and Sani Sha’aban, also a former gubernatorial candidate.

• Others were Sen. Danjuma Laah, Abubakar Mustapha, former National Organising Secretary of PDP and Amb. Sule Buba, Nigeria’s former envoy to South Korea.

• Senator Sani left the APC in 2018 due to a feud with the then governor Nasir El-Rufai. His return comes at a time when El-Rufai is not in good terms with his successor, Governor Sani.