Southern Kaduna are just like blacks in South Africa’s apartheid, says Shehu Sani

The situation in Southern Kaduna, according to former senator and congressman Shehu Sani, has been likened to “blacks in South Africa during the apartheid regime” in the eight years since the APC took control of the state.

The APC-led administration of Nasir El-Rufai in Southern Kaduna, he said, was the hardest phase in the history of the people under any leader in the state, and he commended them on making it through.

Saturday in Kaduna, as the chairman of a party arranged by supporters of Senator Sunday Katung Marshal, Sani remarked, “I am always so passionate about the people of Southern Kaduna because the area occupies a special place not only in Kaduna state but in Nigeria as a whole.”

He praised the people for their resolve to back PDP and its candidates in every election and for standing firm in defence of their ancestors’ land no matter the circumstances.

He asked his constituents to pray for Senator Sunday Katung Marshal and the other local representatives to be successful in their official roles and get his people out of Egypt and into the land of promise.

Isa Ashiru, the PDP’s candidate for governor in the state election in 2023, urged Senator Sunday Katung Marshal and the other zone representatives to keep their eyes on the prize and do what has to be done to bring prosperity back to their constituents.

In his response, Senator Sunday Katung Marshal expressed gratitude to the program’s organisers and emphasised the importance of meeting the expectations of the people of the zone.

“I decided that I was going to commune with my brothers from the House of Representatives and the State House of Assembly to make sure that we do an assessment of the Senatorial District to actually understand what the people really expect,” he said. That’s what we’ve done, and we’ve put it into words; it’s all about security, and when people feel safe, they can go about their daily lives without interruption.