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SURE-P and N-Power are handouts to purchase the conscience and loyalty of the poor – Shehu Sani

November 9, 2018Ayo Olowo

Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna central, says the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) and the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) are largesse dispensed for political goals. The SURE-P was created in 2012 during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan while the NSIP was created by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to reduce unemployment. Sani alleged […]

Senator Shehu Sani joins the People’s Redemption Party PRP

October 24, 2018Henry Ajiere

Few days after leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central in the Senate on Tuesday joined the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) According to the News Agency of Nigeria NAN, Sani made this known in a statement by his Special Adviser, Political and Ideology, Mr Suleiman Ahmed, in Abuja. “It has […]

Shuhu Sani quits APC in protest – Full details

October 20, 2018Ayo Olowo

The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a decision that comes few days after the national body of the APC submitted the name of Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s political adviser, Uba Sani, as the candidate for that senatorial district. Mr Sani made his resignation known in a letter […]

APC insists on Shehu Sani, says ‘El-Rufai can’t dictate to us’

October 7, 2018Ayo Olowo

The national body of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says Shehu Sani remains its senatorial candidate in Kaduna central. Yekini Nabena, acting national publicity secretary of the party, gave the clarification in an interview with NAN in Abuja on Sunday. He said Sani was the only senatorial candidate from the zone duly recognised by the […]

El-Rufai writes Buhari, says you directed me to initiate recall process for Shehu Sani

October 6, 2018Eben Tanimola

The Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai, says President Muhammadu Buhari directed him to initiate the recall of Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna central district, over acts of contempt and disloyalty. The governor disclosed this in a letter dated October 2 to the the president. In the letter, he listed the ‘compendium’ of sins committed […]

APC National Working Committee invalidates Shehu Sani’s suspension

August 6, 2018Eben Tanimola

The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has invalidated the suspension placed on Senator Shehu Sani by the party executives in his ward in Kaduna State. In a statement signed by the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Sunday, the party directed the state APC chairman […]

I have not left APC, Shehu Sani declares

July 14, 2018Ayo Olowo

Sen. Shehu Sani (APC-Kaduna) said he has not defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to another party, according to a statement he made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday. He said that consultations were still ongoing with regard to his future in the party. “I am yet to […]

‘There should be no grey areas in public office’ – Shehu Sani

June 4, 2018Eben Tanimola

Senator representing Kaduna central, Shehu Sani, says it may be painful that he revealed what senators earn, but insist there should be no grey areas in public office. Recall that in March, Sani disclosed that members of the upper legislative chamber get monthly N13.5m as running cost aside over 700,000 consolidated salaries and other allowances. Femi Falana, […]

Senators Sani, Hankuyi, others set to dump APC if…

May 26, 2018Ayo Olowo

Frustrated by the lingering impasse in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senators Suleiman Hunkuyi and Shehu Sani are considering dumping the party. Their faction of APC in Kaduna State says it was considering defecting to another political party barely few months to the 2019 general elections. The faction, known as APC Akida, said in […]

We rejected el-Rufai’s loan to save the children of Kaduna state from the slavery of debt – Shehu Sani

May 7, 2018News Agency

Shehu Sani, chairman, senate committee on local and foreign debt, has advised Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, to use the “meagre” resources available to run the state. In an interview with NAN on Monday, the senator wondered why governors could not use distributions from the excess crude account and Paris Club Refund to execute projects. He […]