A frontline governorship aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Hon. Sani Mohammed Sha’aban, has rejected the endorsement of Senator Uba Sani as the party’s consensus candidate by Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i and some other leaders of the party.
Sha’aban, who described the purported endorsement as undemocratic, said 90 percent of the APC members and stakeholders in the State were not in support of the development.
Sha’aban, who was the governorship candidate of the defunct All Nigerian People’s Party, (ANPP), in 2007 and defunct Action Congress of Nigeria,(ACN), in 2011 said, anything short of primaries will be rejected by him and his numerous followers.
The governorship hopeful, who is a former member of the House of Representatives, maintained that it is an insult to his personality, as a founding member of the party and being the first to purchase the governorship form, not to be consulted before such a position was reached.
Addressing newsmen in Kaduna, the governorship hopeful said: “We receive the news of the endorsement of Senator Uba Sani as a consensus candidate by Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i with mixed feelings because as a founding member of the APC and the first governorship aspirant to purchase the form, I was not contacted on any consensus arrangements, which I consider an insult on my person.
“Consensus is undemocratic, because democracy is about people and numbers, except if the present administration is not concerned about the success of the party in Kaduna State, otherwise the spirit of making APC a dynamic party should be respected”.
