Why I returned to APC – Shehu Sani
The former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has stated the reason he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party and rejoined the All Progressives Congress.
The human rights activist made this known on Friday during an appearance on a Channels Television programme, Hard Copy.
PUNCH Online reports that Sani, in October 2018, resigned from the APC over controversies surrounding the party’s primaries.
Sani later decamped to the PDP and secured the party’s senatorial ticket but lost the 2019 election to the current Kaduna governor, Uba Sani.
The former lawmaker later he returned to the ruling party on February 16 alongside some PDP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party members in Kaduna.
Speaking on the show, Sani said the Kaduna Governor was responsible for his return to the ruling party following the reconciliation talks across the state.
The activist asserted that he is a founding member of APC in Kaduna state and contributed to the establishment of party structures in the state.
Sani also stated that he fell out with the immediate past Kadun Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over political and personal differences.
He said, “A circumstance led to our mass exit from the APC sometime in 2018, and that circumstance has changed, and then we rejoined the APC in Kaduna state.
“First of all, I was a founding member of APC, particularly in Kaduna state. We established structures, and we did the campaigns and won the 2015 elections both at the senatorial and the governorship levels, somewhere along the way, we parted ways with the governor (Nasir el-Rufai) in the state.
“We parted ways over differences that are both political, personal and also issues that affect the state, and for that reason, we had to evict ourselves out of the party and then now we have a new governor who reached out to us.
“A governor who has been making consultations, building bridges across the state and then we also met and agreed that we should return to the party that we founded in Kaduna state.”
