Senator Shehu Sani Alleges Threat to His Life By Gov. El-Rufai after forming a new Group within APC

Senator Shehu Sani, and other key members of the Kaduna state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have announced the formation of a new group within the party. According to Mr. Sani who represents Kaduna central senatorial zone, the group which is named APC Akida, an Hausa word which means “our Interest”, has been formed to protect the interests of the party’s members, and to help reestablish party structure at all levels.
The governor of Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai and Senator Sani have been engaged in an unending feud, as the media has been awash with news of the lasting rift. Recently, the two politicians had engaged themselves in a war of words with the states’ APC threatening to kick out Sani for his constant “anti-party stand”. A leading member of the party, Tom Maiyashi, during a press conference on Thursday, said the new group will soon announce its leaders at all levels in the state. He said that the APC Akida will serve as a platform for members of the APC to work for the progress of the party in the state.

Following this, Senator Shehu Sani on Monday the 6^th of June alleges  that his life is under threat via his special adviser, political and ideology, Suleiman Ahmed. He accused Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, of referring to him and his political associates as "ants he will match and crush.
Our attention has been drawn to a hate speech and threat to life made by Governor Nasiru El-Rufai against distinguished Senator Shehu Sani in the governor’s circus christened as town hall meeting in Giwa local government on 4th June 2016. The governor reliably and evidently referred to Senator Sani, Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, Isa Ashiru Kudan as ‘ants he will match and crush’. We could have easily dismissed or ignore this statement as tantrums of an accidental governor high on weekend Marijuana, but we decided not to take things for granted in view of the vicious history and his allergy to criticism. Also fresh in our mind is the mass killings and burial of members of the Islamic movement in Zaria last December. We view his unguarded and provocative utterances as nothing but a hate speech and a direct threat to the life of Senator Sani and others whom the governor perceived as his ‘enemies’. We hold Governor Nasiru El-Rufai personally responsible for any harm done on Senator Sani.

This statement is to publicly alert security agencies and the general public that in the event of any injury or assassination of Senator Shehu Sani, no one should be held responsible but Governor Nasiru El-Rufai. El-Rufai is not appeased with his ‘suspension’ of Sen Sani from his pocketed state APC he has now resorted to threats of ‘Crushing and matching’. El-Rufai is an affliction to the people of Kaduna; he is at war with clerics, teachers, workers, traditional rulers, physically challenged, journalists, doctors, politicians and the poor.We advise El-Rufai to use the waters of River Kaduna to build Kaduna of his dream and if he must use blood he should use the blood of the abundant crocodiles in Kaduna River and not that of distinguished senator Shehu Sani.