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Oyegun was a failure, Oshiomhole is ‘the best’— Sani

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Oyegun was a failure, Oshiomhole is ‘the best’— Sani

Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, has praised Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he is the best man to lead the party at this time.

Sani said the APC chairman inherited a failed party from John Oyegun, his predecessor.

In an interview with The Sun, Sani said the former party leadership was not interested in solving the problems that the party faced.

The senator also said the previous leadership of the APC did not act on the same wavelength with President Muhammadu Buhari.

“The new leadership of the party is the best for the party. He is not courting trouble; he is confronting a trouble, which he met. Adams Oshiomhole is the best chairman for the party at this material moment,” the lawmaker said.

“The party has been destroyed, undermined, subverted by the leadership which he inherited. The last leadership was not interested in addressing the problems of the party and giving it a new focus in making it a party that is viable and that is truly progressive.

“The last leadership we had was a transactional leadership, one that simply wants to appease everybody and at the end of the day, end up displeasing everybody. It was weak and it was virtually not in tandem with the spirit and principles of President Muhammadu Buhari.

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“The crisis in the APC today, which has led to defection was a direct consequence of the failure of leadership of those whom Adams inherited. Adams is the best chairman of the party. If it is not Adams as chairman of the party, you could not have met me in the APC by this very time.”

On his rift with Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Sani said the intervention of Oshiomhole made him remain in the party.

“I was among those who revolted against the party and we had to revolt because the party persecuted us. And the party marginalised us; the party made us lose interest in it. But now, the new leadership came with Adams Oshiomhole and he gave us all the assurances that things will change,” he said.

“So, that was one issue that led to my stay back. And the second issue was that there was intervention by people like Balarabe Musa, Adams Oshiomhole, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Femi Falana and the president himself which I respected and made me to stay back.

“The third issue is that those that we wanted to defect, told me that they were going home and that home was PDP and it was never my home. So, I couldn’t go to the PDP because it wasn’t a home to me. That was the issue.”

 

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