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PRP Throws It’s Kaduna Central Senatorial Ticket As Lifeline To Shehu Sani

 

The Oasis Reporters

October 30, 2018

Senator Shehu Sani (left) and Gov El-Rufa’i, when they believed that the going would get good.

Deceived, humiliated and abandoned by his party, Kaduna Central Senator in the upper legislative chamber, Mr. Shehu Sani has been offered a lifeline to contest for his reelection by the People’s Redemption Party, PRP in Kaduna State. The party confirmed that Senator Shehu Sani is its flag bearer for the Kaduna Central senatorial race.

According to a Daily Trust report, the State Chairman of PRP, Dr. Mataimaki Tom Maiyashi, confirmed that Senator Sani fully registered with the party at his Ward 6 in Tudun Wada in Kaduna South Local Government.
His words: “I wish to confirm that he is the candidate that will be contesting under our party for Kaduna Central Senatorial district.

“Although before the coming on board of Senator Shehu Sani somebody had already purchased form for the Kaduna Central senatorial ticket but on his own, he decided to step down.
“Senator Shehu Sani’s ideology has always been that of the PRP, so to us he has just come back home and we are happy he has returned,” he said.

Shehu Sani emerged from a struggle against military despotism in the late 80s and 90s to become an APC senator in 2015. He joined the two other senators from his home state to block a foreign loan being negotiated by his state governor, Nasir Ahmed El Rufa’i that needed the approval of the upper legislative chamber. This set them on a collision course.

Finally, Shehu Sani was lured back to the party as the other Senator, Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi left to start the R-APC. The third senator is of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. Shehu Sani, seen as the weak link, was lured back to the APC with a dangle of an automatic return ticket to the Senate which turned out to be a greek gift. Towards the close of nomination and submission of names, Governor Nasir Ahmed El Rufa’i was said to have substituted Sani’s name with another Uba Sani, one of his lieutenants leaving Shehu Sani out in the cold.

With this rescue, the Kaduna Central senatorial ticket will be a triangular jostle principally by two Sanis’ of the APC and the PRP in addition to the PDP candidate. Without prejudice to other parties whose hats are already in the ring.

Additional reporting: Daily Trust

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