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Ex-Kaduna Governor, Senator Shehu Sani, Others Dump PDP for APC
As Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani received 50 opposition parties bigwigs who decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday, Senator who represented Kaduna North in the 8th National Assembly, Suleiman Uthman Hunkuyi told Northerners, not to allow selfish politicians incite them against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of 2027 general elections.
Hunkuyi, one of the opposition bigwigs who defected to the APC was reacting to the recent utterances of former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i, who said selfish politicians should desist because North cannot afford to work against Tinubu.
Hunkuyi commended Governor Uba Sani for reaching out to all the party stalwarts chased out of APC by former Governor El-Rufa’i and bringing them back to the fold of the ruling party.
According to him, “Some selfish people are telling northerners to work against Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections, but the North cannot afford to work against the President.
“All of us that started the APC in Kaduna State know that, along the journey, the vehicle was stopped in the middle of the jungle, we were asked to drop and we dropped without fighting them. But, today we have a governor who has gone round to all the points where we were dropped and he has picked everyone of us and brought us back to the APC family,” he said.
Governor Uba Sani while welcoming the opposition stalwarts and about 200,000 other decampees into the APC assured them that in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Kaduna State, they will enjoy the same rights and privileges as every other party member.
The Governor, who addressed a mammoth crowd of party supporters at Murtala Square at the mega rally held on Saturday, said that there was no difference between a party member who joins today and the ones who have been in APC ten years ago.
“Someone who joins APC today and the one who was a foundation member 10 years ago, are of the same status. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges.
Sani told the decampees to notify their supporters of the readiness of APC to accept them into the party as their doors are still open to accept more defectors.
According to him, the popularity and acceptability of APC is because of its just leadership at both the state and federal levels, adding that the party has come to stay in Kaduna State, the entire north and Nigeria as a whole.
“In the 2027 election, the electorate will vote for APC in all the elections, from top to bottom. At the top, our leader, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be elected. At the state level, the party will be voted for at the gubernatorial, National and State Assembly elections, by the Grace of God,’’ he said.
The governor promised that projects would be executed in all the nooks and crannies of Kaduna State, irrespective of party affiliations and ethno-religious considerations.
‘’Politics is different from governance. We will be fair to all, whether or not they voted for us because that is the oath of office that we swore to uphold as leaders,’’ he further said.
Sani who argued that leaders are not infallible and are bound to make mistakes like anyone, pleaded with the led to always point out their mistakes to correct them.
The governor reminded the crowd that leaders will be held accountable in the hereafter regarding how they led the people whom God had entrusted to them.
Prominent amongst those who decamped to APC are, former Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Muktar Ramalan Yero, Senator Shehu Sani, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, the gubernatorial candidate of NNPP in the last election and Alhaji Sani Shaaban, a former gubernatorial candidate.
Others are Senator Danjuma Laah who represented Zone three at the upper legislative chamber on the platform of PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha, former National Organising Secretary of PDP and Ambassador Sule Buba, former Nigeria’s envoy to South Korea.
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