R-APC: How Buhari, governors caused APC crisis – Shehu Sani

Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central has blamed the
emergence of the Reformed All Progressives Congress, R-APC, on the
failure of President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors.

Sani said the emergence of R-APC was in response to the poor
governance and lack of focus of Buhari's government.

The lawmaker berated Buhari's style of leadership and APC's inability
to address the numerous challenges of the nation.

Speaking with Guardian, Sani, noted that R-APC was on a mission to
salvage the nation from those who wanted to ensure that the challenges
facing the country and its people were unresolved.

Sani said the APC "has plunged Nigeria into crisis that have defied
solution due to the inability of President Buhari to check the
excesses of those in command structure of the party and led it astray
in the past three years.

"The reformed APC is a product of the crisis within the APC in the
last three years. The reformed APC became a convergence of people that
are aggrieved in the party; the legislators that have been
marginalized, and most importantly, for the shoddy, mischievous and
destructive congresses that was held under (Chief John) Oyegun's
chairmanship of the party."

Noting that the R-APC had no grouse with Adams Oshiomhole, because he
was just sworn-in into office, Sani said, "but, our concern was that
in the last three years under Oyegun, the party lost its integrity,
lost its unity and it has lost its value in the eyes and minds of many
of its members because of the injustice and the cruelty and
persecution meted on us while the party remained silent.

"R-APC is made up of about three to four categories of people. It
comprises legislators that were systematically marginalized and
unjustly treated by their state governors and backed by the party in
the last three years. It also comprises non-elected APC members, who
were treated badly and whom the party never carried along in all its
activities."