Our Signatures Forged To Suspend Shehu Sani - APC Ward Exco

The Tudun Wada Ward executives of the All
Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, on
Tuesday dissociated themselves from Monday’s
suspension of a senator representing Kaduna
Central, Shehu Sani, from the party.
Mr. Sani was on Monday suspended for a period
of 11 months by the party at Tudun Wada Ward,
where he registered.
But the Secretary of the ward, Ahmed Abdulhamid;
the Public Relations Officer, Auwal MaiAnguwa and
ex-officio member, Aminu Alilan, who purportedly
signed the suspension letter, told our reporter
their signatures were forged.
“Three people were said to have signed the
suspension letter. The third person was a delegate
and not an ex-officio as stated in the statement.
“The whole letter is forged and none of the ward
executive appended his signature or is even aware
of the suspension until it was made public.
“That is why we called for a meeting today to make
our positions known to the world.
“What happened was that we had a meeting
yesterday and we did not reach any conclusion. It
was on that basis that we requested him (Senator
Shehu Sani) to come and explain some of the
issues raised against him.
“The party shall investigate the sources of this
statement because the three executives mentioned
to have signed the statement have denied
knowledge of it,” Abbas Mohammed, Chairman of
Tudun Wada ward of the APC, said.
The ward secretary and the PRO in a chat with
PREMIUM Times also denied signing the statement,
insisting that their signatures were forged.
A PREMIUM TIMES reporter in Kaduna observed
that the state party executives and some party
leaders met at the state secretariat of the party on
Ali Akilu Road on Tuesday.
Some of the party’s leaders, who spoke to our
reporter on the condition of anonymity, also denied
prior knowledge of the suspension.
“We are not aware of any suspension of Senator
Sani. In fact we are convening a meeting now, and
we have also summoned him to come,” one of the
state executive council members said.
In the suspension letter circulated on Monday, the
party said Mr. Sani’s offences were “violating the
rules of engagement of the party, factionalizing the
party, and engaging in anti-party activities by
criticizing the policies of Governor Nasir El-Rufai.”
An aide to Mr. Sani, Suleiman Ahmed, said it was
clear that those who wrote the letter were ignorant
of the laws guiding the APC.
He said although it was clear from the letter that
the people were out to stop the senator from
criticizing “the anti-people policies of the El-Rufai
administration”, they would not be able to stop
him from expressing his views on what affects the
people.
“They are toeing the line of the state secretariat of
the party, so our reaction is that those who wrote
this letter are ignorant of the party’s constitution
and they are dancing to the tune of the state
executive of the party and Governor Nasir El-Rufai,”
he said.