'Governor's adviser, Uba Sani behind falsehood against me,' Shehu Sani

Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has fingered the Political Adviser to Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai for masterminding falsehood against him.

Assistant Publicity Secretary of the Kaduna State APC, Hon. Salisu Tanko Wusono had on Friday said they have uncovered further evidence of anti-party activities by Senator Shehu Sani, alleging that he has been holding meetings with PDP members before and after the party slammed an 11-month suspension on him.

But Senator Sani, while debunking the allegations, said they are aware that the said Salisu Tanko Wusono doesn’t have the basic literacy and intelligence of writing statements or concocting such lies.

Sani, in a statement signed by Suleiman Ahmed, his Special Assistant on Political matters said they are not ignorant of the fact that Wusono is the face of the Political Adviser to Kaduna state Governor, Mallam Uba Sani, who in turn, is acting on behalf of Governor Nasiru el-Rufai.

"My attention has been drawn to a so called spokesperson of the Kaduna State APC who goes by the name Salisu Tanko Wusono. The statement purports that Senator Shehu Sani met with some PDP stalwarts in Southern Kaduna and even gave them the sum of ten million naira. This claim is an outright falsehood, deceitful and was fabricated to mischievously misinform the public," the statement said.

"Mallam Uba Sani and his cronies like Salisu Tanko Wusono have in the last few months, continuously conceived and expanded this crisis which they have relied upon to extort money from the Governor of Kaduna State," Sani added.

He said Kaduna state APC was yet to recover from the shame such people caused the party when they in collaboration with another aid of the Governor, Muktar Ahmed Monrovia, attempted to bribe some ward excos with the sum of N500,000 to engineer the suspension of Senator Shehu Sani.

"After that failed and disastrous suspension plot against the Senator, they have resorted to other face saving measures aimed at maintaining their lines of extortion. Mr Wusono started spreading unfounded lies and allegations which even the Nigerian Police authorities had to come out publicly and debunk. They also devised the cowardly act of using President Mohammadu Buhari’s name to incite the public against perceived enemies," the statement said.

Sani, through his aid, said he was disheartening that the APC in Kaduna State has been so polarized and reduced to a level where the party is now being run by persons who have no political clout or integrity.

"It is also very unfortunate that the state governor will allow his stooges to insult National officers, plot and spread lies against elected and notable personalities in the party that gave him succour, political relevance and power when he was muscled out of the then ruling PDP."

Sani said the whole charade about the APC in Kaduna State is a script being played out with the sole aim of making monetary gains and at the same time maintaining a crisis that will make it impossible for stakeholders to hold the government to account.

"I wish to reiterate that Senator Shehu Sani remains the most credible and respected APC personality in Kaduna State today and no amount of blackmail, false stories, concoctions and outright lies will derail him from standing by the truth and speaking out his mind. Senator Shehu Sani, as an activist, has been speaking out his mind on local, national and international issues, decades before any of the present political office holders in Kaduna state became known," Ahmed's statement said.