Group Slams Kaduna Senators Over Hate Campaign

Gov. El-Rufai and Sen. Sani

… You Can’t Stop APC in 2019

A social political group under the aegis of Kaduna Redemption Group, has described the hate campaign mounted against the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration by Senators Shehu Sani of Kaduna Central and Senator Danjuma Leah of Kaduna South, as cheap blackmail.

The chairman of the group, Yahaya Muhammed who made this known in a press statement issued to newsmen in Abuja, said citizens have been able to observe among other things that the level hate speech at both state and federal level is a product of an alliance with the anti Buhari elements and sundry treasury looters that has one reason, to frustrate both the Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-rufai and the president from securing a second term in office.

Muhammed who called on the people of the state to brace up for the defence of the mandate given to the governor, said the senators have no power to block to sabotage the efforts of the government to develop state.

He however called on the people of the state to continue to give maximum support to a government imbued with vision, tenacity of purpose, dedication, democratic minded and unshakable spirit.

“Let us give governor el-Rufai a chance to make the needed difference and there by write his name on the marble of history as most progressive and development minded in the history of the state.

“It is an established fact that the Senators are not happy that el-Rufai administration in Kaduna state is recording a remarkable progress in terms of Kaduna becoming one of the investment destinations in the country as demonstrated by Olam farm’s presence in the state.

The effective tax policies being evolved to generate revenues for government service the revolution in the educational sector and pragmatic leadership that is blocking leakages and every atom of corruption without let or hindrance are beyond one’s imagination,” he said.

THE STATEMENT

PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY KADUNA REDEMPTION GROUP ON 30TH AUGUST, 2018 TITLED SENATOR SHEHU SANI: POTRAIT OF CONTROVERSY, INCOSISTENCY AND OPPURTUNISM

Having followed his antecedent which is deeply rooted in opportunism, mischief, pretence, blackmail; negative credentials that are surplus commodity among some Nigerian politicians and activists,we have seen in him an ambitious power monger with an unquenchable appetite for materialism and stardom. Writing this piece on him and fellow collaborators is therefore not by accident but a call to duty and well thought out decision anchored on the need for comprehensive assessment of the man, his character and political traits.

On the recent disguise Sallah homage of Shehu Sani to President Buhari in Daura, we must raise alarm that he longer enjoys the confidence of his constituents and APC members in Kaduna State. It is a known fact Shehu stained himself by becoming a willing tool in the leprous hands of anti-Buhari elements. Most notoriously he is rationalizing their misdeeds against the APC government. It is also beyond contention that he is a mole in APC working for opposition forces against the re-election of Mr. President. There are disquieting indicators of his reason for remaining in the party to achieve a sinister slide back to the detriment of the APC family.

Since he ventured into public consciousness he maintained a deceptive stand and brazenly compromised on all issues with direct bearing to the interest of Northerners.

It all started during the struggle for the revalidation of the 12 June annulled presidential election, when Abacha bared his fangs at the height of his staying power. In apparent quest for money and thirst for names dropping amidst greed, he approached an influential figure in the Abacha regime under the guise of giving the government a classified information on the role of some 12 June campaigners in the phantom coup against the Abacha despotic rule that framed up Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen Shehu Musa Yaradua and others in which the functionaries of the regime saw an opportunity to rope Shehu in the list of the plotters in order to shore up numbers of the suspects from the core north that was limited to only Gen Yaradua, Col Lawan Gwadabe, Capt Ibrahim Alpha, Alhaji Sanusi Mato and selected few.

The death of Abacha and the subsequent decision of Gen Abdulsalam Abubakar his successor to set free political detainees of the said era with Gen Obasanjo, Col Fadile, Col Gwadabe, Kunle Ajibade Chris Anyanwu among others paved the way for the regaining of his freedom and follow up integration into the larger Nigeria society.

Not a few always view him with measured suspicions, knowing his antecedent and contradictory principles. He started with raining insults against Northern leaders, traditional institutions and politicians in the day time, only to crawl back at night with his tails between his legs to go back to the same people he abused in the media seeking for favours and dubious reconciliatory gestures. In a typical case of blackmail and extortion. Some of his victims are former governors, serving governors and some of his present colleagues in the red chambers. As things began to unfold, he unleashed vitriolic attacks in his unrepentant fashion.Some of them revealed their ordeals in his hands.?

Note that it takes mischief and blackmail of the highest pedigree for him to arrive at his present position as Senator. He first elevated his notoriety with presentation of a book credited to him as the so called author titled killing fields in which he said so many terrible and negative things to the detriment of Northern Nigeria as geographical entity and as people. He crowned the satanic verses with another blasphemous publication titled Phantom Crescent in which he denigrated so many things that even his grandparents represented.

In his characteristic manner the issue of a kidnapped British girl became either another avenue for making money or a case of psychiatric evaluation bearing in mind the years he spent in prison during his detention under the Abacha misrule. The toddler known as Madeleine McCann disappeared from the bedroom of her family vacation apartment on the cusp of her 4th birthday, in the Algarve Region of Portugal. The scene of Shehu’s press outing was the conference hall of Abuja’s famous Transcorp Hilton Hotel where he gathered herbalists, spiritualists and marabouts with their charms and herbs. He presented himself as Co Chairman of the Hand in Hand African Organization. According to him since the western technology has failed to locate the whereabout of the little girl, the Nigerian spiritual healers and herbalists are set to surprise the world. He promised that within seven days from Monday May 28th2007 the where about of Madeleine McCann will be known.

Even years after the dubious claim of seven days promised and to show the level of bankruptcy and integrity deficit associated with his name, yet there is not a single word from himself and the marabouts presented to the world vindicating their prowess and ability to rescue the girl particularly after the Portuguese police placed a reward of 2.5 million pledged by celebrities such as JK Rowling, Sir Richard Branson and Wayne Rooney on information that will lead to her discovery.

In the course of his journey to notoriety and controversy, he started a campaign “the prosecute Obasanjo or forgot anti-graft war” crusade, a sinister campaign of calumny against the former President for his refusal to make him Special Assistant on Public Affairs during his second term in office. Equally, he joined the bandwagon of Yaradua must break away from Obasanjo to succeed empty sloganeering. He still holds a former minister and the eventual appointee as the SA to the president contempt and responsible for his inability to get the position that he then wanted desperately.

In a typical turn coat and opportunistic fashion reminiscence to where a dog goes back to his vomit, he went back to seek for Baba Obj’s forgiveness in order to use him in one of his numerous scams. He convinced him to participate in the negotiation and mediation for peace with Boko Haram. They even traveled to Maiduguri and met a member of late Mohammed Yusuf’s in law family which after their departure Boko Haram killed. The same Obasanjo he abused and insulted without regard and consideration.
Obasanjo appointed him into several prominent committees during his tenure in office. A classical ”nit-wit” and a scoundrel called the same Obasanjo that appointed him a member of several juicy committee unprintable names is now replicating similar treacherous tendency, extending his stock in trade of mischief and blackmail against president Muhammadu Buhari and others that resisted his terrible antics. It is no longer surprising that he is against everyone including President Buhari who is a serial victim of his character assassination.

As a result of his activities alongside his other collaborators the citizens of the state decide that it is no longer golden to play the Pontius Pilate, the sign of the changing times and the things to come in bothKaduna state and Nigeria are unmistakable with the recent chasing away of the disgruntled elements from their hide out during one the clandestine meetings where they were planning to destabilize the peace in Kaduna state and undermine the Buhari administration at the national level.

More significantly the citizens have been able to observe among other things that the level of hate campaign mounted by them against the APC administration at both state and federal level is a product of an alliance with the anti Buhari elements and sundry treasury looters that has one reason, to frustrate both the Governor of Kaduna and the president from securing a second term in office, people keeps wondering what is the connection between him and the opposition politicians to the extent of Shehu becoming their mouth piece against the Buhari administration.

What could be discerned from available records, the two Senators remains the most ungrateful elected Senators the APC has ever produced. They are obsessed with the quest to remain in power and ever desperate to be in charge. Let us remind them that without the goodwill of President Buhari that mercifully endorsed them from the political obscurity, oblivion, irrelevance and from the backwaters of reoccurringopportunism and failures at the expense of a more credible, patriotic and grounded intellectual like Comrade Salihu Lukman and Comrade Uba Sani. Just as providence had regretted that it created deviant men, we are certain that Muhammad Buhari president of Nigeria is now brooding over his mistaken endorsement of the duo and their fellow traitors in the red chambers.

As for Senator Danjuma Laah of the PDP was not renowned for a principled position on any issue became the butt of the public after realizing that he is under the radar of the anti corruption agencies for code of conduct infringement and sundry during his past civil service days. We hold the view that they are going against the grain of public opinion in their conducts, as they should expect unmistakable response from the people beyond reproach.

It is instructive to mention the subtle attempt towards crippling the administration Governor El-Rufai and the well-being of the state by the three Senators from Kaduna State in the red chambers. Their ignore-minable role and betrayal of sacred trust given to them by the people is to say the least unfortunate. They rejected the foreign loan granted Kaduna State knowing fully well that Governor El-Rufai only inherited very startling debt profile he is not the one that acquired it. Curiously, they granted loan request of Lagos with highest debt profile and request of Ogun State among other states too.

Instead of using their position to find out how Kaduna State came to inherit such huge debt and what such debt has been used for. In fact Sen Hunkuyi deserves to be interrogated being a onetime Commissioner of Finance in the state to tell the people those inherited debts that are authentic and those fictitious.

It appears there is a grand design by some selected Senators to destabilize governance in their respective states. With Parliamentarians like them in the National Assembly, we are afraid that Nigeria’s democracy is doomed.

We urge the much blackmailed Governor El-Rufai and betrayed people of the state to brace up for the defence of the mandate given to the state Governor. It is not the duty of the Senators to block good things coming to the state. We are astonished that they are busy becoming the stumbling block to the progress and development of the state.

The Governor is also a victim of conspiracy for his stubborn refusal to open the treasury of the state to the Senators for sharing, thus attracting misplaced criticisms and unwarranted campaign of distraction for vowing to only service the poor at government expenses. This is major reason why anti progressive forces across board are working to suffocate El-Rufai whom they identified as threat to their survival a part from President Buhari whom they fingered as their greatest nemesis.

It is an established fact that the Senators are not happy that El-Rufai administration in Kaduna state is recording a remarkable progress in terms of Kaduna becoming one of the investment destinations in the country as demonstrated by Olam farm’s presence in the state.

The effective tax policies being evolved to generate revenues for government service the revolution in the educational sector and pragmatic leadership that is blocking leakages and every atom of corruption without let or hindrance. In addition to small scale industries that are generating employment beyond one’s imagination.

We urge the people of the state to continue to give maximum support to a government imbued with vision, tenacity of purpose, dedication, democratic minded and unshakable spirit. Let us give Governor El-Rufai a chance to make the needed difference and there by write his name on the marble of history as most progressive and development minded in the history of the state

YAHAYA MOHAMMED
CHAIRMAN