The central senatorial district, which Uba Sani represents, comprises of Birnin Gwari, Chikun, Giwa, Igabi, Kaduna North, Kaduna South and Kajuru local government areas. Zailani is from the same zone and specifically represents Igabi state constituency.
Although the recent scuffle is squarely linked to the speaker’s attack on Sani’s alleged poor performance while speaking to his constituents in Igabi, observers say the real issue between the two goes deeper into more personal ambitions regarding the 2023 general elections.
Sani, a onetime senior special assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo, is said to be eyeing the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna’s seat of power come 2023. Many say Zailani, who became the speaker of the state Assembly on February 25, 2020, is not only being pushed by the powers-that-be in Kaduna to stop him, but observers say he is also eyeing the Senate seat for Kaduna Central come 2023.
According to him, PDP’s glory has long departed and that the party can never be relevant again in the state.
He called on the people, particularly those from the southern part of the state where he said the PDP still exists to change their mindset and be loyal to the ruling party to enable them enjoy more dividends of democracy in the area.
Kure further cautioned the ordinary southern Kaduna people not to allow some selfish individuals from the zone to mislead them against the ruling party, saying already some PDP members from the zone had defected to APC after realising that their communities had not benefited any dividends of democracy in the last 16 years of PDP governance in the state.