Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has told aspiring politicians that seeking “peaceful and calm” political parties is a sign of unseriousness, insisting that power only comes through struggle.
In a post on his verified X handle, Sani disclosed that he had encouraged a journalist friend last year to return to his home state and contest an election.
Six months later, when he asked about the friend’s progress, the journalist said he was still searching for a “peaceful and calm party to join.”
Sani dismissed the response, declaring: “The more peaceful and calm a party is, the more it’s irrelevant. Rancour free parties are not different from the NGOs.”
The former senator argued that power does not come without a struggle. He stated: “You must be able to swim in the crocodile infested waters; to survive or be consumed. You must ride the horns and take the bullet.”
According to Sani, there is no shortcut to political power. He wrote: “There’s no shortcut. That storms and thunder is where the action is. Build the courage to jump into it.”
Shehu Sani, a former pro-democracy activist imprisoned under the Abacha military regime, contested multiple elections before winning the Kaduna Central Senate seat in 2015. He has since defected from the APC to the PRP, then to the PDP, and returned to the APC in February 2025.
He won the just concluded APC primary election for Kaduna Central Senatorial seat.
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