Senator Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central
legislator, has stated why he would never be friends with Kaduna State Governor
Nasir-El-Rufai.
In an interview with the Daily Trust over the weekend,
the gubernatorial candidate revealed that he and El-Rufai have different
political histories, which is why they cannot be friends.
El-Rufai, according to the People Democratic Party
(PDP) chieftain, comes from the neoliberal capitalist philosophical order,
whereas he is from the leftist socialist heritage.
Sani said that he had not visited the Kaduna State
Government House in four years and had not met with the governor throughout his
tenure as a legislator.
The former legislator accused APC governors of acting
like monarchs who seek to tell the party and its members what to do.do.
He said: “The person who is in charge of the Kaduna
government and I come from different political backgrounds. From what I can say,
he is from the neo-liberal capitalist philosophical order and I come from the
leftist socialist background.
“I believe right from after he was sworn in, I have
never seen him up to today, except the day he came to condole me when my mother
died; three days after which he went to the media to insult me.
“So, virtually I have not been to the Kaduna State
Government House for four years and we never even sat at the same table for the
four years I served as senator.
It was very clear that governors who emerged in the APC became emperors, they want to dictate to the party and to everyone. If they like you, you are a member of the party and if they don’t, you cannot be a member of the party.
“I can’t belong to that kind of association where I
have to be subservient, to surrender my conscience, my conviction for one
person to sit you down and dictate what he wants.
“I understand in the political spectrum of Nigeria, if
you want to survive, most times, you keep your mouth shut when things are going
wrong and you accept things even if they are not right. I cannot be a senator
who will not go to the floor of the National Assembly and speak for my people
simply because I don’t want to embarrass the state or federal government. “
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