CHIMAOBI UCHENDU
At last, Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central, has dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC). His withdrawal of membership was announced in a letter to the chairman of the APC in his Ward 6, Tudun Wada North, Kaduna.
It is believed that Shehu Sani’s decision had to do with the eventual emergence of Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s favourite senatorial aspirant, Uba Sani as El-Rufai and the Senator had been at loggerhead in the last couple of years. At best, they could be described as sworn enemies.
El-Rufai had worked assiduously against Shehu Sani’s re-election bid but APC had promised to hand the eloquent Senator an automatic ticket. But the party’s position was later changed and El-Rufai’s candidate was given the ticket.
“I present to you my highest compliments and wish by this communication to formally offer to you my resignation from the All Progressives Congress,” Shehu Sani’s letter of resignation reads. “l had joined the APC and remained with it against all odds in the belief that it will constitute a veritable platform for the realization of those democratic ideals which I hold very dear, that honor and integrity will be the ultimate ethos of the party and, most importantly, that internal party democracy will always be the norm. However, only posterity can affirm the extent to which the APC has committed to and reflected these values.
“As I exit the APC at this point in time, I wish to formally thank the party for availing me the platform upon which I am currently serving this country in the honoured capacity of Senator of the Federal Republic.
“I wish the party well in all her future endeavours and ask sir, that you please accept the assurance of my highest considerations.”
