NEWS: Shehu Sani Moves To Politically Educate People

Senator Shehu Sani has reportedly donated 100, 000 transistor radio sets to seven local government areas under his senatorial district, NAN reports.


Senator Shehu Sani


The Senator, who is Representing Kaduna Central, explained that the gesture was aimed at raising the political consciousness of the people as the transistor radio would enable them have more access to information on what is happening within and outside their localities.

“We come from the part of the country where the major and most important source of information is the radio. Radio is an empowerment, a form of education and enlightenment. It enables people to have access to information and also have an opportunity to express themselves,” he said.

The lawmaker further explained that the radio has for decades been the only medium where people in the North get better informed.

“I am sharing it to downtrodden within the cities and the rural areas so that they would be abreast with what is happening within their own locality, national and state,” he said.

Speaking on his reported suspension by the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sani said the party’s national body has already invalidated it and advised the two parties to avoid any form of attack and counter attack.

“I have instructed all my supporters and followers to abide by this, but unfortunately, some people are capitalizing on the crisis for their own monetary gains. I am saying it in clear terms that as far as I am concerned we would abide by what the national body says,” he said.

Senator Sani disclosed that he would remain in the APC as long as President Muhammadu Buhari remains in the party “because Buhari is APC,” He said as Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign and Domestic Debt and also vice chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, he would continue to call on nations which Nigeria has diplomatic relations with to assist the fight on corruption by returning money looted from the country.

Meanwhile, despite plea from some national officers, the Kaduna state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) insisted that Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna central zone, is still on suspension. Inuwa Abdulkadir, the national vice chairman (north-west) of the party, had earlier declared the suspension of the senator invalid as it did not follow due process.