Sen Sani may be set to dump APC, blames Oyegun, Buhari

The senator representing Kaduna Central, Sani Shehu and other aggrieved members of the party in that state may soon be set to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Shehu who dropped the hint on Tuesday, regretted that President Muhammadu Buhari failed the aggrieved members of the Kaduna APC by choosing not to intervene in their running battle with the state’s Governor Nasir El-Rufai.

He also said that it was unfortunate that the new APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, came to office when it was already too late to address the crisis in Kaduna APC.

He made this known to reporters in Abuja on Tuesday, expressing how he had wished that Oshiomhole had come earlier “because like I said these grenades that were laid by the former chairman will explode in a matter of days”.

Sani lamented how former APC chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and the National Working Committee (NWC) ignored complaints by him and other aggrieved APC members on how ward, local government and state congresses in Kaduna State were flawed.

He said that to worsen things, that the Oyegun led NWC went on to inaugurate the executive committees which emerged from the flawed congresses.

On Buhari’s perceived failures to intervene in the Kaduna crisis he said, “It is also very clear to us that even President Muhammadu Buhari is incapable of tackling the menace of the governor of Kaduna State. How can a governor, openly call for violence against senators and not a statement came from the seat of power cautioning such a governor?

“How can a governor move bulldozers and demolish a house of a fellow party member, the one who helped him to be where he is and there is not even a statement from the presidency?

“The governor uses the machinery of the state to emasculate political opponents. He even framed me for murder and there was no statement that came from the presidency to caution such a governor. Virtually Kaduna State under governor El-Rufai does not create conducive environment for any of us to remain in that party (APC).

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“There were three attempts to resolve the Kaduna APC crisis; there was Inuwa Abdulkadir committee which was never respected by the governor, there was the governor Masari- led committee which was also not respected and there as you can see, Tinubu’s attempt to reconcile members of the party was simply naturalized and abandoned. So we are not slaves to continue to be in that party.”

Sani’s hint of dumping APC along with other aggrieved members of the party in Kaduna is coming just as a member of his Akida group, and the Chief of Staff to Senate President Bukola Saraki, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, on Monday resigned from the party.

Baba-Ahmed, announcing his resignation from APC over the crisis in Kaduna State, had said that the APC led Federal Government has grossly under-performed in its three years in power, adding that in “all conscience”, that the party should not be trusted and encouraged to continue to govern Nigeria beyond 2019.

 

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