Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District on Friday declared his assets publicly.
According to him, he followed President Muhammadu Buhari’s lead to publicly declare assets claiming he has around N22m in three bank accounts, two residential houses in Kaduna, two uncompleted office apartments in Kaduna, two houses under lease also in Kaduna, one residential house in Abuja, one family inherited house in Kurfi, Katsina State, and one family inherited house in Minna, Niger State
He also claims to own several vehicles and invested N5million on shares in 2007 shortly before the crash of 2008.
Mr Sani also revealed he authored over 30 books published in Nigeria, United States and United Kingdom and continually earn royalties from those books and publishes a community journal ‘Peace Magazine’
Mr. Sani, who is married to two wives with who he has six children, said he decided to declare his assets in line with the moral example set by President Buhari and vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, both of who had earlier declared their assets on Thursday.
He said, “In line with moral example set by President Buhari and his Vice Osinbajo, and in conformity to the standard of transparent and exemplary leadership, and in submission to the public and popular demand for integrity test to all public office holders, in a new Nigeria on a filtration process for a politically cleaner and decent future, I have decided to voluntarily make this public declaration.
“President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo public declaration of their assets is a moral challenge to all public holders. Their declaration challenges all men of conscience and docks all men who lay claim to self dignity and self worth.
“Their public declaration hangs a chain of guilt on the neck of all public office holders. To refuse to publicly declare assets is to continue to carry the burden of a moral thorn of guilt in a nation whose generation of leaders for so long stands in the dock of ethical court.”