By Jude Opara, Abuja
The outspoken former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has revealed why he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rejoin the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It could be recalled that Sani, a foundation member had dumped the APC in October 2018 amid controversies surrounding the party’s primaries.
He then joined the PDP and secured the party’s senatorial ticket, but he lost the 2019 election to the current governor of Kaduna state, Sen. Uba Sani.
On February 16, Sani returned to the APC alongside some PDP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) members in Kaduna.
Speaking on Friday during an appearance on a Channels Television programme, Hard Copy, Sani said the Kaduna Governor was responsible for his return to the ruling party following the reconciliation talks he initiated across the state.
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 former governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai.
“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.”
