El-rufai was Part of Nigeria's Problem - Shehu Sani

Nasir El-Rufai

 

The bitter rivalry between Senator Shehu Sani of Kaduna Central and Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State seems far from over with a recent criticism by the lawmaker.

 

The Senator claims El-Rufai has no justification to blame the Peoples Democratic Party for Nigeria’s problems as he was part of the rot before he decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress.

Sani said on Monday that all defectors from PDP were part of the party and should not absolve themselves of blame, Punch reports.

He said that the governor was a PDP beneficiary for 14 years out of the 16 years of the party’s reign and as such could not claim to be innocent.

He added that the Kaduna State governor came to limelight through the PDP from 1999 until 2014 when he joined the All Progressives Congress.

“If you google El-Rufai, you will see him from 1999 but if you google Shehu Sani, you will see him from 1989.

“So you can see. He was brought to limelight by virtue of being in the politics of the PDP.

“I laughed at him when he said `the PDP has destroyed Nigeria for 16 years’ while he enjoyed 14 years out of the 16.

“For somebody who has spent 14 out of the 16 years, you cannot say he’s a repented man in two years.

“If you repent in two years, it has to take time to reach people who have never been sinners, like me.

“I have never eaten from the PDP nor have I ever been under their umbrella.

“But he was part and parcel of it for this period of time.”

He said that the APC was a convergence of forces from other political parties, adding that some of the people who came to the APC still had their PDP mentality. Sani insisted that the defectors should also carry all attributes of change and not act like they are still in the PDP.