Senator Shehu Sani |
The Kaduna State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that Senator Shehu Sani remains suspended from the Party.
This was contained in a statement by Salihu Tanko Wusono on Sunday.
According to Wusono, the Kaduna State APC chapter will not sacrifice its cohesion, discipline and unity for political expediency.
The statement reads in full: “We have waged a long and consistent
struggle to uphold respect for the Party, its constitution, and party
spirit so that this party can grow and fulfil the hopes that inspired
its formation.
“Therefore, we affirm the indefinite suspension of Shehu Sani for
serial indiscipline and violations of the Party Constitution, and
further clarify that the Constitution of our Party does not bestow any
powers on the national headquarters to quash the decisions of the Ward,
Local Government and State Executive of the Party. You cannot join the
party at your ward level, proceed totreat the same party with utmost
contempt for three years, then delude yourself into a belief that the
national headquarters can now declare you a saint, and impose you on the
state party!
“The party shall support only those who uphold its substance and
spirit, and it cannot condone the opportunism of people who having used
the APC to get tothe Senate, began rebelling against it as soon as they
got to Abuja. Article 9.2(i) of the APC Constitution clearly states the
obligations of members.“Members of the Party shall be obligated to
affirm the party’s aims and objectives and conduct themselves in a
manner that shall not bring the party to public odium and disrepute.
Members of the party shall also observe the rules and regulations
embedded in this Constitution.
“Article 21A (i-xi) of the APC Constitution lists offences for which a
member is liable to disciplinary action. Shehu Sani has violated
several of these, before and since his suspension. We are not a party of
anything goes! Shehu Sani is on indefinite suspension from the APC. The
process for his suspension was initiated in December 2015 by the Party
Executive in Ward 6, Kaduna South Local Government, which suspended him
for 11 months. Shehu Sani’s indiscipline, his disrespect for the APC,
and the whole notion of party spiritpersisted during the first
suspension. Therefore it was extended to indefinite suspension, with the
endorsement of the State Executive Committee of the party.
“Since 2015, Shehu Sani has engaged in unremitting hostility to the
APC, joining the gang-up against the party in the Senate. At the
national level, the utterances in which he has ridiculed the party and
President Buhari are well-chronicled.
“In Kaduna State, Shehu Sani has since July 2015 opposed everything
the APC and the government it installed has tried to do. On Security,
Education, Law and Order, and Social Welfare issues, he shamelessly
diverged from party position with an enthusiasm and recklessness that
even the opposition parties in the state did not demonstrate.
“We recall the undisguised glee with which he denied Kaduna State the
$350m loan the World Bank had adjudged the state eminently qualified to
access. This loan was to help improve lives by building more schools,
hospitals and vital infrastructure. We cannot sit with such a renegade
except he can reverse course and ensure that we get our loan, among
other conditions.
“While on suspension, Shehu Sani joined Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi in an
attempt to factionalise the APC in Kaduna, opening a parallel
secretariat and claiming to have their own chairman. The Kaduna State
APC swiftly defeated this attempt at factionalisation. We were dismayed
that rather than promptly applying the provisions of the party
constitution to punish factionalisation, the national headquarters of
the party constituted a “fact-finding” committee.
“While Suleiman Hunkuyi has left our party after trying and failing
to destroy it, his partner in indiscipline, Shehu Sani, is desperately
trying to hang in because he has sought, but not found, greener pasture.
His posters are all over Kaduna without the name or logo of the APC, or
indeed any party. Everyone recalls how he was the loudest of the
irresponsible lot that over several weeksthreatened the party with
defection, only to relapse into customary cowardice, unable to join his
allies in carrying out the threat.
“The Kaduna State APC issues this as a notice that we will robustly
insist on our prerogatives. We will not indulge those that have betrayed
our people. And we call on the national headquarters to uphold party
spirit, respect its Constitution and avoid the appearance of taking
loyal party members for granted, or treating traitors as heroes.”
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