A leader of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State has described the purported letter suspending the senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial district, Shehu Sani, from the party for 11 months as a hoax, while stating that the signatures on the purported letter was forged.
Alhaji Abbas Ani, the Chairman of the party in Tundun Wada Ward Six in the Kaduna South Local Government Area, in a letter written to the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said the allegation that the party leadership in the Ward signed the purported letter banning Sen. Sani was incorrect and deceitful.
He said that neither he nor any other party leader in the ward signed any document suspending Sani from the party.
Recall that the media had been awash with the news late last year that Sani had been suspended from the party on grounds of anti-party activities including criticising the governor of his state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai.
The letter by Ani read: “Our attention has been drawn to a document being circulated on the suspension of Senator Shehu Sani. We wish to state categorically that the letter did not emanate from Ward Six as claimed.
“The conception of the idea that led to the action was mustered by an official of the state government (names withheld), who summoned a meeting of my executive and induced them with N500, 000 to suspend Senator Sani, which they rejected.
“We issued a statement which was widely published in some national dailies and broadcast on some local radio and television stations in Kaduna State, to refute and distance ourselves from the said document.
“It is on this premise that we are calling on the party to dismiss and disregard such document as it was not duly signed by the party executive in ward six at any time.”
Ani described the document as a figment of the imagination of its authors while expressing the Ward leadership’s confidence in Sani as the Senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial zone.