Some officials of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have
accused an aide to Governor Nasir El-Rufai of offering a N3 million bribe for
them to suspend a senator.
The APC executives of Ward 6, , Kaduna South Local Government
Area, said this on Sunday at a press conference.
They
accused Uba Sani, Mr. El-Rufai’s political adviser, of offering the bribe to
some of their fellow executive members to suspend Shehu Sani who represents
Kaduna Central in the Senate.
Messrs.
Sani and El-Rufai are both leaders of APC in Kaduna but are political
adversaries.
Abbas
Anni, the chairman of APC, Ward 6, spoke on behalf of his colleagues. He called
on the anti-graft agency, EFCC, to investigate the bribery allegation.
The party
official also linked the new allegation to a previous one in December last year
when some of his fellow executives were accused of receiving N500,000 bribe to
suspend Mr. Sani from the party.
Mr. Anni
has since said that suspension was void.
“It is
very unfortunate that this ugly move is propping up again after the disgraceful
episode of a N500,000 bribe that was purportedly given by the same set of
people to instigate the alleged suspension of Senator Shehu Sani about a year
ago,” he said on Wednesday.
Mr.
Anni called on the APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, and other leaders
to intervene in the Kaduna crisis. He said they should act fast “before the
Kaduna State Governor and his cronies destroy APC in Kaduna State.”
In
reaction, another official of the APC in the ward, Auwal Abdulhameed.
Mr.
Abdulhameed, who said he is the ward secretary, said Mr. Anni got a car from
the senator while “the other eight (executive members opposed to Mr. Sani’s
suspension) got motorcycles.”
“We have
petitioned to the Commissioner of Police and we shall sue for defamation of
character over these accusations that we received N3 million from SA on
Political to Governor El-Rufai,” he added.
Mr.
El-Rufai’s political adviser, Mr. Sani, declined comment when contacted to
speak on the allegations.
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