Shehu Sani: Nasir El-Rufai a tyrant
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as a journalist if i asked you please show me any clip on radio tv audio or newspaper of the acting chairman of kaduna apc you would not have any. the person that is supposed to be the chairman of the party now is danladi wada who is on our own side. but he brought somebody called shuaibu laoje. the only thing he does at apc meeting is opening prayer and closing prayer. apart from that he doesnt know anything1 the kaduna apc crisis came in different stages- the one that began with me and the one that is continuing with senator hunkuyi and others. there are both ideological and political differences between me and governor el-rufai. he came from a political establishment. for the 16 years of pdp rule he spent 13 years as a pdp man he was never known until 1999 when he was appointed the dg of bureau of public enterprises and later minister for fct. this was a man who used to call obasanjo his mentor and1 a oh my god we live in a world of google now. if you google nasir you will see where he generally said that he supported general saleh. we are not in 1960 we are not in 1950. check the interview he granted in 2016 to vanguard newspaper where he said he supported general saleh. so which one are you going to believe what his aides say or what he said personally and as far as i am concerned you can check my facebook posts i said it very clearly that i would not give and delegate any kobo to win el1 the next thing i want you to understand is that the apc raised funds for its campaign the election centrally with the support of asiwaju bola ahmed tinubu bukola saraki and other business moguls. that money was shared to all the 36 states and put in custody of the gubernatorial candidates to pay agents of the party. did we pay the people who voted for us no we didnt. did we give them some incentives to vote for us no we didnt. we differ politically and ideologically. he has a different candidate1 many things happened in the past three years. first of all he induced members of my ward to issue a fictitious suspension against me a suspension that has no constitutional value in the party but was only done for the purpose of just announcing it to embarrass me publicly. and i also warned senator hunkuyi that we are heading to tyranny but he never agreed with me until two years after when the fangs of the tyrant in kaduna now descended on him1 after my purported suspension first for eleven months then indefinite suspension and nasir discovered that that would not give him the peace he needs because i simply kept on my activities the next thing he did was to send his agents to start moving round the schools which i attended from primary school secondary to the polytechnic to even the nysc trying to see whether i forged my documents or not1 i have all their correspondences and letters and the contacts which they have made with my schools. that also did not work. the next thing was that my constituency office was attacked eleven times by thugs but that was not enough. and now they moved to organising protests spending heavy amounts of money on radio trying to destroy my reputation and incite people against me but that also did not work. they went around planting stories that i am anti-buhari and i said i can criticise buhari i dont1 i do not believe that people should be punished for their ideas or for dissenting because i am a chief dissenter myself. but you cannot be in the senate where you have the opportunity to disagree and you walk out to go and call press conference and make false allegations against people. i am not elected into the senate to be pro or anti-buhari. a senator has a set of rules and order to which he is duty bound to comply with. but when you tag somebody as being anti-buhari all you are trying to do1 now i and senator hunkuyi agreed that this party is not working because he too becomes a victim of the man he has been working with. and then we said we should open our own apc office because what nasir did after he won the 2015 election was to appoint 18 of the 26 members of the kaduna apc into his cabinet leaving the party empty. and by the constitution of the party those persons appointed into political offices have virtually lost their seats in the party. and now having seen that the party i1 a no i came from a social political movement and he came from the political establishment and then we found ourselves in apc. i was not his favourite candidate for the senate. his favourite candidate was then the incumbent candidate1 so when it comes to the point of going to the media the governor will hide shuaibu laoje and will bring an acting secretary or the acting publicity secretary to speak on behalf of the party. that is what they have been doing.the chairman of the party became the deputy governor of the state so the party now is only having a deputy chairman who happens to be danladi who is on our side. but nasir said he cannot be the chairman because he is our candidate. he brought laoje and for the past two and a1 if nasir thinks we are irrelevant why did he move bulldozer there if you think and believe that the masses of kaduna state are with you and these people are simply rabble rousers why move the bulldozer there so what he did was to simply engineer his own faction to suspend me for two and a half years. he used his own party to suspend senator hunkuyi and the two groups that were set up the akida and the restoration group. he even expelled them from the party. but when his own suspension came for1 yes kaduna state is the only state with a pdp senator in north west. ten local governments out of 23 are effectively under the control of pdp. so what becomes of the other local governments that are under apc but are not united so if this disunity continues it is going to affect us. if he el-rufai believes in tinubu why is he moving a bulldozer we are saying that nobody could have addressed the problems of apc except the president himself because the governors are party to the crisis the senator1 i can tell you when you are talking of reconciliation and peace in apc there are some fires that tinubu can extinguish with a cup of water and there are some fires he has to use a bucket of water and there are some fires he has to pipe an ocean in order to extinguish. there are areas tinubu can have some achievements. but he can only make that achievement if the parties are prepared to make peace. if one party is prepared for peace and the other party is not there cannot be peace. but it is bett1 a i can tell you that if tinubu fails there is going to be mass defection from apc1 i have the constitutional rights to contest if i want to. but as things are now we need to put our ambitions in our pockets and allow the process of reconciliation to continue because reconciliation cannot go on with ambitions and bulldozers. even before you have peace in war situations you must have a ceasefire. for now we are giving a grace of time for tinubu to succeed. if he succeeds the outcome of the deliberations will form the roadmap for the future of the party and if he fails we will si1 it is always good to look at the messenger and the message. governor el-rufai is the chief architect of that committee because he wants political relevance. how can an apc that promised restructuring only think of restructuring when it is a year to an election documents of that committee is more or less a campaign document for 2018. there will be no restructuring you can quote me1 excerpted from1