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Shehu Sani’s suspension tears APC apart

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The Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the North West chapter of the party are presently in disagreement over the suspension placed on the lawmaker representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, which is tearing them apart, and are seemingly looking to the national leadership to step in.

APC Acting Chairman, Kaduna State, Alhaji Shuaibu Idris, in a letter to the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, asked him to call the Northwest National Vice Chairman, Inuwa Abdulkadir, to order, over his provocative statement against state officials.

He also lamented the lifting of the suspension against Sen. Senator Shehu Sani by Abdulkadir which he insisted, was invalid.

Idris in his letter to Oyegun dated January 12, said the party’s Northwest vice chairman held a meeting with an illegal group and declared that Senator Sani’s suspension was illegal and voided.

The letter read in part: “We are baffled because for one, the national vice chairman did not contact the party executive, the highest leadership organ in the state that suspended Senator Sani. We were not aware of his visit, nor were we invited to the so-called reconciliatory meeting.

“It is rather confusing for us that a national vice chairman would come to a state for an official party function and would choose not to contact the party secretariat. But would rather choose to organise an illegal meeting and make provocative statements against the state officials.”

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He continued, “with a history of compromises, we are afraid that he is also now being compromised to once again favour an illegal group against the party. Otherwise, why should he ignore the APC Kaduna State branch and convene his own meeting with an illegal group?”

The leadership of the APC in Kaduna State has alleged that it was summoned by the Kaduna State Police Command over the suspension of the lawmaker.

The party’s Assistant Publicity Secretary, Salisu Tanko Wusono, in a statement yesterday said the party satisfied the police regarding Sani’s suspension.

The senator had reportedly complained to the police about the party’s insistence on his suspension after the intervention of the Deputy National Chairman (NorthWest), Alhaji Abdulkadir.

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