Sen. Shehu Sani (Kaduna Central) has joined People’s Redemption Party (PRP).
The move is coming a few days after he resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This was made known in a statement signed by Mr. Suleiman Ahmed, Special Adviser, Political and Ideology, to Sen Sani.
In the statement, he said; “It has become impossible for the senator to continue to co-habit with reactionaries and their perfidious and inimical style of politics.
“Sen. Sani maintains the highest respect and honour for President Muhammadu Buhari. However, we prefer to live in a Cottage of Honour than a mansion of shame.
“Sen. Shehu Sani has returned to the PRP. PRP represents our socialist revolutionary ideology.
“Sen. Sani is now free from the toxicity and infamy APC existentially represents. We left the APC for the emperors and their lackeys.”
Confirming the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview, the Kaduna State Chairman of the party, Dr Tom Maiyashi, said the lawmaker is now a member of the party.
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Maiyashi said the lawmaker had been duly registered and offered membership card of the party.
He stressed that “Sen. Shehu Sani has registered with the party and his ward is Kaduna South.’’
Sani announced his resignation from APC on Sunday through a letter addressed to the APC Chairman, Ward 6, Tudun Wada North, Kaduna State, dated Oct. 19, and copied to the national chairman of the party, Mr Adams Oshiomhole.
Sen. Sani has been having a running battle with the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai over who will fly the party’s flag for the Kaduna Central Senatorial seat at the 2019 elections.
While the National Working Committee (NWC), had issued him an automatic ticket, his name was however, substituted with Mr. Uba Sani, an aide to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-rufai.
Uba Sani, Special Adviser to El-rufai on Political Matters, was declared winner of the primary election conducted in Kaduna on Oct. 6 for the Kaduna Central Senatorial ticket, by Chairman Primary Election Committee, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen.
Meanwhile, Sani, did not participate in the election because he had been offered automatic ticket by the national body of the party.
