July 26, 2018

Senator Shehu Sani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says some of the APC Senators are revolting because they are being unjustly and politically suffocated by the party.

Sani, who is representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, made his feelings known while reacting to questions from State House correspondents at the end of a meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and APC Senate caucus at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday night.

He explained that he attended the meeting with the president not because he did not have problems with the party but because he shared the belief that the current leadership of the party was capable of doing them.

According to him, with genuine grievances revolt in the APC is justifiable because the party is a reflection of revolt.

Cue in audio – Sani

“I’m here as a member of the APC caucus in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and my presence here does not meant that my issues have been solved one hundred per cent.

“But I’m of the belief that we have a leader in the party who is doing everything possible to see that the problems that we have that led to a situation of revolt, in the words of Frantz Fanon `we revolt when we cannot breathe’.

“So revolt atimes is much necessary, in fact the APC is a reflection of revolt. It revolted against a system of inequity, injustice and today it is in power.

“So, I’m here because I believe in leadership of the party, I believe also in the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Now, I’m also of the belief that there is no issue that we cannot solve as human beings, as men of conscience and conviction,’’ he said.

Sani, who is believed to be having long-standing political misunderstandings with his state governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufa’I, described the outcome of their meeting with President Buhari as encouraging.

He, however, noted that the challenges facing the APC now were supposed to have been resolved over two years ago, saying that the APC new leadership only inherited ` a civil and cold wars’ in the party

He said: `So, I believe that the discussion we had here is reassuring and in every possible way is comforting that a process has started to heal the wounds and also address issues that led us to where we are today.

“We must recognize the very fact that the problems the new leadership of the party are trying to solve today was something that could have been solved a year or two years ago.

“I always tell the chairman of the party that he inherited but a `civil war and a cold war’ in the party and he is doing everything possible to solve them. So I’m of the belief that a forum like this is a big step forward.

“I’m here because I believe in the leadership and I believe in the process.

“I don’t pretend to say the problems that led to my decision to think twice the party have all been solved. But I believe this leadership can solve the problems.’’