Senator Shehu Sani has played down the significance of former Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC), stating that the move will not affect the ruling party’s prospects in the upcoming 2027 elections.
El-Rufai, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, left the APC on Monday, a party he helped found, and joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in a move that many political analysts believe could alter the country’s political landscape.
However, Sani, who hails from the same state as El-Rufai, believes that the former Minister of the FCT no longer holds significant political influence.
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“Well, first of all, for those of us from Kaduna State, it [his defection] is a good riddance because he stands as a liability to the party in the state,” the former Kaduna Central senator said on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today, citing the APC’s losses under El-Rufai.
“I can back this with facts. In 2015, APC had two senators. By 2023, all the senatorial zones were taken over by PDP. Out of the 14 House of Representatives seats in Kaduna State, by the time he left [office as governor], almost nine of the seats were won by PDP, two by the Labour Party, and then three by APC. With him as a governor, the APC also lost the presidential election in Kaduna State.”
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