2019: Shehu Sani Picks APC Forms For Kaduna Central

Lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, on Saturday, picked up the nomination and expression of interest forms for the 2019 election.

Sani, in a statement via his official Twitter handle, said he picked the forms at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Earlier today,I picked the Nomination and Expression of Interest Forms from the National Secretariat of the APC. pic.twitter.com/O6aT2CsQGN

— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) September 8, 2018

The senator, who has been in a running battle with Kaduna state governor Nasir el-Rufa’I, on Thursday, rejected thew adoption of of indirect primaries by the state chapter of the party.

Sani and a senatorial aspirant, General Sani Saleh (rted), at a joint press conference at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna, said the party has just concluded the state executive committee meeting at which they read out a resolution that they prefer the indirect method in the forthcoming primary elections.

“Well, that is the state’s position and not the final say, national headquarters required that every states executive committees must submit a written request signed by state’s executive committee members, critical stakeholders as well as aspirants to various offices in the state.

“So far out of these three categories of people, the state executive committee has taken its own stand, its left for critical stakeholders and aspirants to state their own position on this matter.

“And as an aspirant to the office of senator for Kaduna central senatorial district, I do not agree to indirect method of conducting the primaries because of obvious reasons,” Saleh said.

According to him; “one of the reasons is the manner in which the congresses were conducted. It was conducted in such a way that certain individuals were given the opportunity to select the entire executive members from every wards and LGA in the state.