Sani told newsmen at the weekend in Abuja shortly after a meeting with the National Fact Finding Committee of the party led by Segun Oni that the crisis in the APC has been lingering for a very long time adding that it has been left to reach such a crescendo whereby the “broom automatically transformed to a machete.”
Apparently alluding to the behavior of the state governor, who last week ordered the demolition of the secretariat of the APC faction led by Suleiman Hunkuyi, among other measures the governor has allegedly employed to muscle out his opponents in the state chapter of the party, Sani said “our position is this, that if the governor of Kaduna state is for peace, we are for peace. If he’s for war, we are also for war and a bigger war.”
He noted that the Segun Oni committee came to Kaduna and requested that the factions should all sheathe their sword and bury their hatchets stressing that “for now, we only covered our hatchet with leaves and we are waiting for the next step which is the national secretariat of the party (NWC) and see what the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu -led reconciliation committee is going to do.”
He however, noted that it is the desire of everyone in the party to work together, to heal the wounds, in order to restore confidence and hope in the hearts and minds of the millions of Nigerians that voted the party in 2015 even as he advised that the Tinubu led reconciliation committee should be given the chance to bring aggrieved members together.
He said that the party must face its problems squarely and stop glossing over issues adding that President Muhammadu Buhari remains the glue of APC. “Buhari is the glue of APC. These three words you are seeing, A, P and C, Buhari is the glue. If we don’t have Buhari in the APC, suddenly everyone will find way to his home. So, as he remains the glue, he must also be up and doing in addressing these crises. And part of the problems we are having here is the philosophy of being for everybody and for nobody; it led the party to nowhere.”
“But a situation whereby some people are treated as outcasts and slaves, that will not augur well for the party and I said it repeatedly that it is wrong for anyone to simply categorise some people as pro-Buhari and some people as anti-Buhari, all of them within APC.
“Everyone who is in the APC is pro-Buhari but the only thing is that some are not sycophants and some are sycophants. So, as far as I am concerned, the success of this party in the upcoming elections is dependent on how it would be able to manage the crisis and solve the problems,” he said.
On whether he will continue in the party if the reconciliation efforts of Bola Ahmed Tinubu fail, the lawmaker said, “you see, we say all politics is local. As far as I am concerned, if the crisis in Kaduna lingers and it defies all sorts of peaceful moves, certainly people will take the next step.
“And as far as I am concerned, everyone has plan B. Even for me, I have plan B, Plan C and Plan D. So, if anybody feels he can enslave me, if anybody thinks he can dictate to me, if anyone felt that this party belongs to him and doesn’t belong to me and I am not needed in the party, there is no way I can continue to remain in the party after all it is a free world.”
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