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  • PDP will welcome Shehu Sani if APC rejects him – Ben Bruce

    The Senator representing Bayelsa East constituency, Ben Murray-Bruce has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will gladly open its door for a colleague senator; Shehu Sani (representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district), if the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) expels him.

    The lawmaker, who is a member of the PDP, took to his official twitter handle to laud Mr. Sani’s intellect, describing him as a specimen of patriotism.

    His comment followed a communique issued on Saturday by chairpersons of the APC in the six local governments that make up Kaduna Central Senatorial district.

    The chairmen endorsed a rival aspirant and political adviser to Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, Uba Sani, for the 2019 senatorial ticket.

    Mr. Sani described the rejection as ‘antics’ by the governor.

    He said the governor resorted to organising ‘fake’ endorsement meeting after repeatedly failing to suspend him from the party.

    He added that the people of his constituency are ‘solidly’ behind him irrespective of the governor’s move.

    “Senator @ShehuSani is an asset to Nigeria and a pride to the @NGRSenate. I have traveled all over Nigeria and very few Nigerians can match his intellect,” Mr. Ben-Bruce tweeted.

    “If APC doesn’t want him, the @OfficialPDPNig wants him. Nigeria wants him. Democracy needs him. He’s a specimen of patriotism!.”

    Mr. Bruce further praised Nigeria’s diaspora for remitting $22 billion in 2017.

    “Nigeria’s diaspora remitted $22 billion to Nigeria in 2017. That is almost Kenya’s entire budget for 2018. Our diaspora is the single largest source of FDI into Nigeria. Help me lobby your Senator as I push for a Constitutional amendment to enable them vote in future elections”, he said.

  • You are servants, not demi-gods – Shehu Sani tells northerners in power

    The senator representing Kaduna Central at the Upper Legislative Chamber, Shehu Sani, has admonished northerners in power to see themselves as servants and not demi-gods.

    Sani noted that the north must focus on education, agriculture, tourism, mines, ICT and health, to steer development in the region.

    He urged the northern region to also revive its manufacturing sector, and prepare a post oil plan.

    According to Sani, “Those in the position of power must see themselves as servants and not masters or gods or Demi gods.

    “The north must stand up and end extremism and terrorism. The north must build bridges between its majority and minority ethnic groups.

    “The north must start test running on restructuring by budgeting without dependent on federal allocation.

    “The region must factor on 6 key areas; education, agriculture, tourism, mines, ICT and health. The north must revive its manufacturing sector. The north must empower its people, provide opportunities for the most vulnerable and end poverty and dependency culture. The north must see itself as a component of the Nigerian nation.

    “The north must equally neutralize the menace of materialism and revive its moral values fading fast in the lives of its younger generation.”

  • Gunmen kidnap Sen. Shehu Sani’s aide in Kaduna

    Mr Bashir Ahmad, an aide to Sen. Shehu Sani (APC-Kaduna) on Youth Matters has been kidnapped.

    Sani, who made the announcement on his Facebook post, said Ahmad, 45, was kidnapped by some gunmen in Tudun Wada Area of Kaduna South, Kaduna State on Dec. 8.

    He said the victim had some weeks ago reported to the police that some unknown gunmen had visited his residence in search of him.

    “I received the news of the abduction of one of my youth leader and brother in the person of Mallam Bashir Ahmad by masked Gunmen in Tudun Wada Area of Kaduna South.

    “Eye witness narrated that the masked Gunmen molested Mallam Bashir Ahmad before whisking him away to an unknown destination.

    “Some weeks ago, Mallam Bashir raised alarm and reported to the Police when he was told by neigbours that some armed mask men came looking for him when he was not at home,’’ he said.

    The lawmaker said, relevant security agencies had been alerted on the incidence.

    According to him, efforts will be put in place to secure his freedom.

    Sani assured Ahmad’s family and friends that he and other well-wishers would continue to remember him in their prayers, and that they would stand solidly by him until he returned home.

  • Sheu Sani lambast Obasanjo over failure to honour MKO Abiola

    Sheu Sani lambast Obasanjo over failure to honour MKO Abiola

    The senator representing Kaduna-Central senatorial district, Shehu Sani, says the refusal of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to recognise and honour the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late MKO Abiola, is a reflection of Nigeria’s institutional failure.

    Sani noted that when Nigeria finally attained democratic rule in 1999, none of those who suffered in the hands of the military while struggling to entrench democracy in the country got any political position.

    He said it was, therefore, not surprising that the present crop of democrats in the country, who did not sacrifice anything for the nation’s democracy, were only interested in amassing wealth for themselves at the expense of the masses.

    Sani delivered a keynote address on Monday at the 2017 National Breakfast Prayers and Tribute Session in honour of Abiola.

    The event with the theme, “June 12 movement and the hope of equitable restructuring for Nigeria,” was also to commemorate the 24th anniversary of June 12, 1993 and it held at the late Abiola’s house in Ikeja, Lagos.

    Sani argued that despite the Federal Government’s failure to honour the late Abiola, the June 12, 1993 presidential election that the late businessman won, but which the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida annulled, laid the foundation for the current democratic rule in the country.

    He said, “Without the struggle of June 12, there could not have been democracy in Nigeria today.

    The change and the experience in the 2015 election was part of the seed of June 12, it was the same forces that forced the military out power that rallied Nigerians to eject the PDP out of power.”

    He said Obansanjo’s failure to honour the late Abiola reflected the effort of the political class to suppress the sacrifice of those who went to jail and those who paid the supreme price for the democracy that Nigeria has today.

    Sani said, “It is not simply about Chief MKO Abiola not being recongnised by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, it is about an institutional decision of the political class, who continues to suppress the role played by the free press bringing about democracy…17 years down democratic lane, hardly will you see any of those that were on the streets of Lagos protesting for democracy ever being recognised with even an award of OON, which is the lowest. As they share oil blocks to themselves, share positions to themselves, so they share national honour to themselves.”