Senator and a human rights activist, Shehu Sani, has hinted that he might join the exodus of politicians leaving the ruling party.
Senator Sani
In what he tagged 'Poem for the Broom', influential politician, Senator Shehu Sani, hinted of his imminent departure from the ruling All Progressives Congress, capturing his irreconcilable differences with the party in biblical terms.
On Facebook, Thursday morning, he wrote; “We the persecuted are on Exodus, riding on horses,chariots and caravans, departing Pharaoh Thutmose’s Egypt; we are now at the coast of the Red Sea, about to leave the land of cruelty and injustice.”
Senator Sani, a lifelong activist, has been locked in a fierce confrontation with Governor Nasir El-Rufai over Kaduna State’s structure of the APC, as well as other policy disagreements.
He has often called on President Buhari to display neutrality and fairness if he would meddle in the fight, but his recent comments have shown that he is not comfortable with the way the president has been displaying closer ties with El-Rufai.
The crisis escalated in April after the police summoned Sani for explanation about what he knew of a murder that occurred in Kaduna. His supporters accused El-Rufai of being behind the plot, a claim the governor rejected.
Buhari does not appear to have publicly taken sides on the matter, but it is believed he endorsed El-Rufai’s grip on the state’s party structure.