Shehu Sani Remains Suspended, Kaduna APC Dares Party Leadership

The Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has insisted Senator representing Kaduna central, Shehu Sani remains suspended from the party.

Sani was suspended indefinitely by his ward for alleged misconduct and disrespect of the party leadership in the state.

But in a statement on Sunday, the national headquarters of the ruling party lifted Sani’s suspension.

In the statement, signed by Yekini Nabena, acting spokesman of the ruling party, the APC said Sani remains a leader of the party.

“The national secretariat has received the news of the suspension of Senator Shehu Sani by the Tudun Wada ward chairman and wish to clarify that the purported suspension of distinguished Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna central senatorial district is hereby lifted and is confirmed as a bonafide member and leader of our party,” the statement read.

“The chairman, Kaduna state chapter has been directed to inform the relevant ward and local government chapters appropriately, and also put the necessary mechanism towards complementing the efforts of the national leadership towards ensuring lasting peace and unity in the party.”

Responding hours later, the Kaduna state executive of the APC insisted that the senator remains suspended.

In a statement signed by Salisu Tanko Wusono, the state assistant publicity secretary of the party, the state executive said the national secretariat has no power to reverse a decision of the ward.

Wusonu said: “Therefore, we affirm the indefinite suspension of Shehu Sani for serial indiscipline and violations of the party constitution and further clarify that the constitution of our party does not bestow any powers on the national headquarters to quash the decisions of the ward, local government and state executives of the party.

“You cannot join the party at your ward level, proceed to treat the same party with utmost contempt for three years, then delude yourself into a belief that the national headquarters can now declare you a saint and impose you on the state party.

“Since 2015, Shehu Sani has engaged in unremitting hostility to the APC, joining the gang-up against the party in the Senate. At the national level, the utterances in which he has ridiculed the party and President Buhari are well-chronicled,” the statement read.

“In Kaduna state, Shehu Sani has since July 2015 opposed everything the APC and the government it installed has tried to do.”