The former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has stated the reason he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party and rejoined the All Progressives Congress.

The human rights activist made this known on Friday during an appearance on a Channels Television programme, Hard Copy.

PUNCH Online reports that Sani, in October 2018, resigned from the APC over controversies surrounding the party’s primaries.

Sani later decamped to the PDP and secured the party’s senatorial ticket but lost the 2019 election to the current Kaduna governor, Uba Sani.

The former lawmaker later he returned to the ruling party on February 16 alongside some PDP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party members in Kaduna.

Speaking on the show, Sani said the Kaduna Governor was responsible for his return to the ruling party following the reconciliation talks across the state.

The activist asserted that he is a founding member of APC in Kaduna state and contributed to the establishment of party structures in the state.

Sani also stated that he fell out with the immediate past Kadun Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over political and personal differences.

He said, “A circumstance led to our mass exit from the APC sometime in 2018, and that circumstance has changed, and then we rejoined the APC in Kaduna state.

“First of all, I was a founding member of APC, particularly in Kaduna state. We established structures, and we did the campaigns and won the 2015 elections both at the senatorial and the governorship levels, somewhere along the way, we parted ways with the governor (Nasir el-Rufai) in the state.

“We parted ways over differences that are both political, personal and also issues that affect the state, and for that reason, we had to evict ourselves out of the party and then now we have a new governor who reached out to us.

“A governor who has been making consultations, building bridges across the state and then we also met and agreed that we should return to the party that we founded in Kaduna state.

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The political mind suffers from a wound of inferiority, and the politician goes on scratching the wound. Intellectually, he is not an Albert Einstein – he compares himself with giants – psychologically he is not a Sigmund Freud.... If you compare yourself with the giants of humanity you are bound to feel completely shrunk, worthless.

“This worthlessness can be removed in two ways: one is religion, the other is politics. Politics does not really remove it, only covers it. It is the same sick man, the same man who was feeling inferior, who sits as a president. But just sitting on a chair as the president – what difference can it make to your inner situation?

“The ego is so subtle and so slippery. And the politician is sick because of his ego. He can cover the wound by becoming a president, a prime minister... he can cover the wound, but the wound is there. You can deceive the whole world but how can you deceive yourself? You know it. It is there, you have covered it… The same is the situation of the politician – just pus, wounds, inferiority, feeling worthless. Yes, he has reached higher and higher, and on each step of the ladder, the hope was that on the next step the wound would be healed.

“Inferiority creates ambition, because ambition simply means an effort to prove yourself superior. There is no other meaning to ambition but an effort to prove yourself superior. But why make an effort to prove yourself superior unless you are suffering from inferiority
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You went for yourself, not the people