The senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the Senate, Shehu Sani, has said that avoidable doom awaits the All Progressives Congress at the 2019 polls, should Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu fail to reconcile aggrieved members.
Sani, a chieftain of the APC, stated this on Sunday in Abuja in an interview with newsmen.
It was his own reaction to Tinubu’s recent appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the APC team of consultation, reconciliation and confidence-building.
“It is going to be a tragedy if he fails. This is what I know and I can speak in parables,” said Sani who has not been in a good relationship with Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State.
According to him, El-Rufai has pocketed the party and wants to impose his will and unleash terror on members, by exploiting his proximity to the President.
He said Tinubu’s appointment had halted, for now, the defection of most APC members to other political parties.
“It is left for Asiwaju to build the bridges. Lagos is known for bridges; therefore we hope that there will be the Seventh Mainland Bridge to connect the divide, but we are not sure of this.
“Right now, the party is already divided in Kaduna and it is for the national secretariat to note this and we have said it in clear terms.
“The problem has defied solution for two years, but we believe that Asiwaju can do a lot of reconciliation.
“We hope that he will be able to achieve a lot, because if he fails, it is going to be doom for the party.
“In the process where reconciliation is taking place now, I think it is in our interest to put our ambitions in our pockets according to what Mr. President said and wait for Asiwaju to address the problem,” he said.