16th February, 2025
Michael Adesina/NAN
A plethora of influential figures, including Senator Shehu Sani, former Governor of Kaduna State Alhaji Muktar Ramalan-Yero, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, and Alhaji Sani Sha’aban, have made a switch to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This seismic shift in allegiance was further bolstered by the return of Senator Danjuma Laah, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha, and Ambassador Sule Buba to the APC fold in Kaduna.
These distinguished individuals were formally welcomed into the APC by Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State on Saturday, amidst great fanfare at a politically charged rally held at the iconic Murtala Square.
Addressing the newly minted APC members and the assembled crowd, Governor Sani issued a ringing endorsement of the party’s unity and resilience, proclaiming that the APC would remain an unbreakable entity up to 2027 and beyond.
Sani also assured the 50 political stalwarts that defected to the APC that they would enjoy the same rights and privileges like every other members of the party.
Sani said that there was no any difference between a party member that joined it recently and the ones that have been in APC ten years ago.
He said: ‘’Someone who joined APC today and the one who has been a foundation member 10 years ago, they are of the same status. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges.”
Sani urged the decampees to notify their supporters of the readiness of APC to accept them into the party as their doors were still open to accept more defectors.
According to him, the popularity and acceptability of APC is because of the its just leadership at both the state and federal levels.
Sani added that the party has come to stay in Kaduna State, the entire North and Nigeria as a whole.
“In the 2027 election, the electorate will vote for APC in all the elections, from top to bottom. At the top, our leader, President Bola Tinubu will be elected.
“At the state level, the party will be voted for at the gubernatorial, National and State Assemblies elections, by the Grace of God,’’ he said.
The Governor promised that more projects would be executed in all the nooks and crannies of the state, irrespective of party affiliations and ethno-religious considerations.
‘’Politics is different from governance. We will be fair to all, whether or not they voted for us, because that is the oath of office that we swore to uphold as leaders,’’ he further said.
Sani, who argued that leaders were not infallible and they were bound to make mistakes like anyone, pleaded with the led to always point out their mistakes with a view to correcting them.
The governor reminded the APC faithful that the leaders would be held accountable in the hereafter regarding how they led the people whom God had entrusted on them.
