The Vice Chairman North Central, Zakari Abdullahi Ede of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Zakari Abdullahi Ede, has berated Senator Shehu Sani and his group for declaring the party as a failure.
Ede said that Sani, who had been a senator on the APC platform until recently was wrong for saying that the party, which gave him the opportunity to seat in the National Assembly had “not done any work.”
Shehu Sani and his groups are unfair to APC
A faction of the ruling APC in Kaduna State known as APC Akida and members of the APC Restoration groups, which have sympathy for Senator Sani had dumped the ruling party along with the lawmaker.
According to the two groups, they decided to dump APC because the party had failed to meet the expectations of millions of Nigerians who voted for it in 2015 after it promised them change.
“It (APC) has not lived up to the expectations of the millions of people, who laboured to put it in power, as well as Nigerians, who expected that it would usher in genuine change,” the groups had said.
But the APC Vice Chairman in the North West Zone, Zakari, in his reaction to the claims by the two groups and Senator Sani described them as ingrates who had bitten the finger that had been feeding them.
“Well as far as I am concerned, he (Senator Sani) has the right to leave the party. But for him to say the APC has done nothing, that is not unfair and unacceptable. Even recently you saw the commissioning of a light rail in Abuja and many other projects. What else do you want? A party that has provided everything you need; the other politicians were embezzling money, but APC came and changed all that. We started building different infrastructure.
“Also, look at the ongoing project of the railway station leading from Abuja to Kaduna and the one leading to the West and many more,” Zakari said.
He further said Senator Sani and his groups should have left the APC quietly rather than making such unguarded statement, adding that the lawmaker and the two groups had no place in the party in the first instance.
“He has no right to say APC has done nothing; he doesn’t have a place in our agenda and that is why he has left. He can leave, but he should not say we have done nothing,” Zakari
said.
