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Avoid Kaduna Airport, Shehu Sani Advises Protesting Students

September 20, 2022 No Comments

Former lawmaker, Shehu Sani, on Tuesday, advised the National Association of Nigerian Students that they should stay away from Kaduna airport as they protest against the prolonged strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

He disclosed this on his Twitter handle.

Sani further stated that the forest near Kaduna Airport is unsafe, saying, “NANS should avoid Kaduna International Airport; you know that forest nearby, e get as e bi.”

This comes after students blocked access to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Monday to protest the prolonged strike.

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Shehu Sani joins Kaduna gubernatorial race

April 8, 2022 No Comments

Former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has joined the 2023 gubernatorial race in the state.

The former lawmaker is to run on the platform of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections.

He disclosed this on his official Twitter handle, noting that no individual nor group bought the form for him.

He wrote: “I picked my Governorship form…no be any group buy am for me…I no go lie,”

The tweet was accompanied by pictures of him and some PDP members including Sam Anyanwu, a former senator and National Secretary of the party.

Mr Sani had dumped the party for the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) prior to the 2019 general elections. He later left the party for People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Since 2019, Sheu Sani has been a ferocious critic of the Buhari-led administration as well as the Kaduna State government under Nasir El’Rufai.

He had on several occasions also vowed to rid Kaduna of terrorism should he get the mandate to lead the state.

According go him, Kaduna State is in dire need of strategic leader who is ready to ensure security in the state

He once wrote: “We can’t continue to fold our hands while the government is helpless. We must unite the people against terror. Kaduna has never been more divided along religious lines than it is today.

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Shehu Sani faults suspension of Abuja mosque’s chief imam for criticising Buhari

April 4, 2022 No Comments

A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani on Sunday reacted to the recent suspension of the Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters mosque in Abuja, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

The cleric had on Saturday slammed the President for allowing insecurity to fester in Nigeria.

He also advised Nigerians not to vote for any politician that would not address their plights in 2023.

Khalid was suspended by the mosque committee a few hours later, claimed that his utterances were against the tenets of Islam.

Sani, who reacted to the cleric’s suspension on his Twitter handle, mocked all the members of the committee and supporters of President Buhari over their misplaced reactions on the issue.

He said Khalid did what was required of a sincere religious leader in troubled times.

Sani wrote: “Sheikh Nuru Khalid dusted the mirror the clergies used to show GEJ and he showed it to the President and his colleagues couldn’t stand it. Khalid has demonstrated fidelity to his faith, to his conscience and to his conviction.”

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Shehu Sani decries worsening insecurity in Kaduna

March 26, 2022 No Comments

A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, on Friday decried the worsening insecurity in Kaduna State.

Kaduna is currently mired in security crisis with bandits killing and terrorizing people across communities.

The criminals killed at least 34 people including two soldiers during attacks on four communities in two local government areas of the state.

Sani, who reacted to the latest attack by bandits on Twitter, said the terrorists were having a free day in the state and urged the government and the security agencies to show more commitment in the fight against the criminals.

He wrote: “Mass killing and destruction in Giwa Local Government of Kaduna State by terrorists today. A horrific and bloody act of evil in Central Kaduna.

“They kill and spare the lives of those they want, at the time they want.”

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Shehu Sani decries dilapidated state of Nigerian embassies, suggests solutions

January 31, 2022 No Comments

A former lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central at the Senate, Shehu Sani has bemoaned the moribund state of Nigerian embassies while enumerating solutions regarding the challenge.

Sani made his stance known during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday.

The lawmaker disclosed how most of the country’s embassies abroad have been rented without plans to buy houses for that purpose.

“I found out that we have been renting about 60 per cent of Nigerian embassies abroad, some existed far back as 1960 and we are still unable to buy a house in those countries.

“From my observation, diplomatic staffs have been fleecing this country in the name of paying rents; they prefer Nigeria to keep renting houses, rather than buying a building as an embassy.

“In the past, everything about the embassy is in the Foreign Affairs ministry, but during the era of Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Ambassadors go to the Minister of Finance for them to be funded.

As such, it left the foreign affairs ministry with little or no choice on the embassy other than posting of diplomatic staffs.

Everything about embassy should go back to the foreign affairs ministry; we should have targets, every year we should buy 10 buildings, so that in five to six years, we are no more renting,” Sani said.

He further suggested trading off some of the buildings currently in disuse in order to maximise finances being expended.

“There are some buildings that we may not need; we have to trade them off and put those ones away.

“I learned we have a residence for Nigeria’s permanent representatives in New York and that residence has not been used for decades.

“If that residence has not been used for decades, we have no reason to keep that building, we need to sell it off, use the proceeds and buy other properties in other countries,” he added.

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If you can’t declare bandits terrorists, declare them federal civil servants – Shehu Sani tells FG

November 1, 2021 No Comments

Former Nigerian senator, Shehu Sani has condemned the federal government’s refusal to swiftly declare bandits as terrorists.

According to him, if government cannot declare them terrorists, they might as well declare them as federal civil servants.

This comes a week after 36 state Houses of Assembly Speakers called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists and enemies of the nation.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian government has said the need to follow due process is responsible for the delay in declaring bandits as terrorists.

Taking to his verified Twitter handle on Monday to express his displeasure with the delay, Sani lamented that the bandits are killing people regardless of religion and place of worship.

“They killed Muslim worshipers in their mosques in Niger and Katsina states; they killed Christians in their Churches in Kaduna state; if the Government doesn’t want to declare them terrorists, it should declare them federal civil servants,” he wrote.