Shehu Sani, the former congressman for the Kaduna Central Senatorial District, has provided reasons why he defected back to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Sani had defected to the PDP in October 2018 after malpractices in the conduct of the APC primaries.
He became a member of the PDP and obtained the party’s senatorial ticket. He lost the 2019 election, however, to the current governor of Kaduna state, Uba Sani.
Sani was back at the APC on February 16, along with members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party and PDP, in Kaduna.
Friday explained that the Kaduna Governor brought him back to the ruling party following the reconciliation talks in the state.
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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