By John Ogunsemore
Former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani has hinged his return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Kaduna governor, Uba Sani’s reconciliatory moves.
Sani spoke as a guest on Channels Television’s Hard Copy programme on Friday.
Sani, who won his senate seat under the APC platform in 2015, quit the party in 2018 over controversies surrounding the ruling party’s primaries.
He joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but lost his seat to Uba Sani, who was the APC candidate, in the 2019 general election.
On February 16, Sani rejoined the APC alongside some members of the PDP and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kaduna.
On his return to the party, Sani credited the Kaduna governor for his reconciliatory moves 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 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.”
