Tag: Senator Uba Sani

Uba Sani bags ‘Best Nigerian Senator’ award

Aminu Imam

Less than two years after emerging as the overall best in the Senate’s Top Ten Bills Productivity Index, Senator Uba Sani has just been named “overall best Senator” by Order Paper, in Abuja. The lawmaker, who is now the APC Governor-elect of Kaduna State was first declared among the “Top Performers on Bills Sponsorship for North-West Geopolitical Zone” under “Most Valuable Parliamentarians Hall of Fame Awards organised by OrderPaper Nigeria” in July 2022. It would be recalled that OrderPaper Nigeria, an independent organisation, is focused on monitoring the legislative activities…

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Kaduna Gov-elect, Uba Sani unveils book written on el-Rufa’i

Aminu Imam

Kaduna State Governor-elect, Senator Uba Sani, Deputy Governor, Dr. Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe yesterday joined other eminent Nigerians to a public book presentation on outgoing Governor, Nasir el-Rufa’i. The book, titled: “Putting People First: The El-Rufa’i Years”, was written by Emmanuel Ado. Senator Uba Sani presented the book in an event that took place at Shehu Musa Yar’adua Hall, Murtala Square, Kaduna. Dignitaries at the event include the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, represented by Kashim Imam, Rivers State Governor, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, renowned business mogul, Arthur Eze who served as the…

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Eid-el-Fitr: Citizen’s welfare, democracy must be prioritised – Kaduna Gov.-elect 

Aminu Imam

Kaduna State Governor-elect, Senator Uba Sani, has urged Nigerian political leaders to prioritise the security and welfare of citizens by putting in place policies that would uplift their standard of living. The Governor-elect, who stated this in a goodwill message to mark Eid-el-Fitr in Kaduna yesterday, also sued for unity and peaceful co-existence of citizens of the state regardless of religious and ethnic affinities. Uba Sani, who is the incumbent senator representing Kaduna Central at the Upper Chambers, while praying for God’s guidance in the governance of the State, noted…

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Alleged Fraudulent Primary Election: Kaduna APC Governorship candidate, Uba Sani, dragged to court

Aminu Imam

The Kaduna State Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 general elections, Uba Sani, has been dragged to court over alleged discrepancies and fraud that characterised the conduct of the primary election of the party in the State. One of the aggrieved aspirants, Sani Sha’aban, filed a suit at the Kaduna State High Court seeking an order granting leave to effect the service of the originating summons and all other processes in the matter on Uba Sani (the 2nd defendant and respondent). According to a court…

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2023: Kaduna PDP celebrates as el-Rufa’i endorses Uba Sani

Aminu Imam

…Boasts of victory The Kaduna State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has boasted of clinching victory at the 2023 governorship election in the State after the governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, unveiled his preferred successor. Recall that it was earlier reported that el-Rufa’i had recently endorsed the lawmaker representing Kaduna-Central in the National Assembly, Senator Uba Sani, as his ‘anointed’ successor in 2023. The governor subsequently called on his loyalists to support Sani in the All Progressives Congress, (APC) primary. PDP stalwarts and supporters across the state believe that…

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Kaduna 2023: Sha’aban rejects Uba Sani as APC guber consensus candidate

Aminu Imam

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…

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Kaduna 2023: Sen. Uba Sani emerges APC Govt House Core team consensus aspirant for guber primary

Aminu Imam

The Senator representing Kaduna-Central, Uba Sani, has emerged as the Kaduna Government House Core team consensus aspirant in the forthcoming APC gubernatorial primary race in the State. It was gathered that Sani emerged during an extensive meeting of the Government House Core team leadership, chaired by Governor Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, on Wednesday. It was also gathered the former Chief of Staff to the governor, Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo, who recently resigned as Commissioner of Planning and Budget to contest the APC governorship primary race, has been directed by the Governor…

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Sen. Uba Sani’s constituents demand his recall, stage protest over alleged non-performance, inaccessibility

Aminu Imam

Scores of residents of Kaduna-Central senatorial district have taken to the streets in protest against an alleged non-performance by c. The protest, which began around 7:00 am on Friday, witnessed a large turnout of protesters who are mostly youths. Marching from Rigasa suburb, in Igabi local government area to the Kaduna metropolis, the protesters carried placards with various inscriptions such as: ‘No more Uba Sani’, ‘We don’t want Uba Sani’, ‘Uba Sani has failed us’, among others. According to the protesters, the protest followed a discovery that the Senator had…

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