Shehu Sani seeks PDP gubernatorial ticket to run for Kaduna State governor next year

CIVIL rights activist and the former lawmaker representing the Kaduna Central Senatorial District Senator Shehu Sani has declared himself a candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial ticket as next year's elections loom.

Senator Sani, who was in the National Assembly between 2015 and 2019 as a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was suddenly dropped as a candidate ahead of the 2019 elections at the insistence of Governor Nasir El-Rufai. He had fallen out with the governor over a World Bank loan, which the senator felt the state could not afford to take.

Since leaving the National Assembly, Senator Sani has been very active on social media but with elections due in 2023, he has decided to run for Kaduna State governor. Speaking in Kafanchan, the headquarters of Jema’a Local Government Area, Senator Sani promised to provide a leadership that will serve as a bridge between the people of northern and southern Kaduna State if elected governor in 2023.

Senator Sani said: “The people of Kaduna State need a leader that will lead them out of Egypt. It is no fiction that our dear state has never been so divided, so what we need now is a leader that will unite and secure our people, a leader that will ensure social justice and equality and I believe I can provide that.

“I will provide a leadership that will spread prosperity to all the 23 local government areas of the state. I have always stood by the people of southern Kaduna and I have spoken for and defended the people of southern Kaduna.

“I am here to urge the people of southern Kaduna to support my gubernatorial mission and ambition to salvage, secure, unite and prosper Kaduna State. So, I am here in need of your support; in need of your solidarity, and in need of your prayers.”

“The people of Kaduna State have no viable option than to vote for the PDP because the ruling party in the state has failed to secure the lives of the people. Our people are being killed and kidnapped every day, people in the villages pay taxes and fines to go to the farms and cultivate their crops.

“Our students are no longer free to go to school without fear of abduction or being killed in the hands of terrorists. We need a leader that will deliver Kaduna State from terrorism, we need a leader that will treat every citizen as equals and the PDP will provide that.”