Human and democratic rights activist-turned politician, Comrade Shehu
Sani, who is representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District at the National
Assembly, on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has made it clear the problem threatening APC if not properly addressed poses a serious threat to the government of
President Muhammadu.
There were flaws in the election process and unfortunately we had to share some positions with the PDP in the Senate. That was not supposed to be and I was not part of it but we must move on.
When you are faced with challenges, what you do is either to run away from such challenges or you confront them. We will walk through the landmines for the realisation of the goals and manifestoes of our party.
But to be candid with you, we are pained by the situation because our people voted for change and they wanted an APC leadership but there was a problem of lack of reconciliation within the APC which opened a crack for the PDP to take an advantage of the situation.
The collective resolve is to accept the situation and see how we can operate effectively. What we want to avoid is unnecessary over-heating the Senate. That will be a distraction to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
But I tell you, if Saraki is absent and Ekweremadu is there, the APC still has the majority in the Senate and in every vote it is the majority that counts.
Even if Ekweremadu takes over in acting capacity, he will not be able to tell us to do what we do not want to do as a party. What we are trying to do is to ensure that proper reconciliation takes place before the Senate work starts because if we continue in the Senate as a divided house, the programmes of the President Muhammadu Buhari government will be in serious jeopardy and subverted.
We were not united in the elections but we want to be united in the way the Senate is run. We want to embrace reality and go through it to be able to appease the people who voted us into office.
For now, reconciliation process is going on between the Unity camp and the Like Minds towards seeing how the camp of Senator Lawal can be accommodated within the new arrangement. But the first step is accepting the fact that we got ourselves in a corner and how we live in that corner is what is of interest to all of now.
Yes, we have problems within ourselves but they are being addressed and I commend the efforts of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in trying to reconcile both the Unity Forum led by Senator Lawal and the Like Minds led by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Such reconciliation is needed for the party to make progress.... Senator Sani Concluded.
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