Former Kaduna Central Senatorial District lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has explained his decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and rejoin the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking on Hard Copy, a Channels Television program, on Friday, Sani revealed that Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani and reconciliation efforts across the state influenced his return to the ruling party.
Sani had previously resigned from the APC in October 2018 following disputes over the party’s primaries. He later joined the PDP, secured its senatorial ticket, but lost the 2019 election to Uba Sani.
On February 16, the former lawmaker rejoined the APC alongside members of the PDP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kaduna. He emphasized that as a founding member of the APC in Kaduna, he played a key role in establishing its structures in the state.
Sani also disclosed that his fallout with former Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai was due to political and personal differences.
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.”
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