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Senator Shehu Sani has said he did not defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC) because some top shots in the party intervened.
Reall that there was a mass defection from the party at the National Assembly at the week with Sani almost joining the move.
However, the Kaduna central lawmaker told PREMIUM TIMES on Friday that his “defection was stopped by Asiwaju Tinubu, Oshiomole, and Balarabe Musa.
“First of all, they recognized and accepted the fact that an injustice has been done to me in Kaduna.
“Balarabe Musa invited me to his house, cautioned and counseled me against defection. Asiwaju did the same thing. Adams Oshiomole reminded me of my activism and the struggles.
“They drew my attention to the fact that all those who defected to the PDP were once PDP members. I don’t have the pedigree of PDP. I’m an activist.
“The assurance they gave me was that everything will be sorted out. They assured me that they will intervene on issues which I raised. Because of that, I could not defect.”
He added that “The first was the fact that the governor (El-Rufai) engineered my suspension and neither the presidency nor the party have ever lend a voice about that.”
“Secondly, my office was attacked five times by thugs. Thirdly, the governor tried to frame me in a murder case. Then the governor publicly incited the general public to attack me because we denied him a loan.
“The governor also demolished the house of the national vice chairman of the party when he tried to intervene.”
As stated by him, he “was under intense pressure from my colleagues who defected, to defect along with them. I explained to them that we have different political constituencies, calculations, and background.”