A former police commissioner, Sani Magaji (rtd), has threatened to sue Senator Shehu Sani for allegedly forging his signature.

Magaji, who is a House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for Chikun/ Kajuru federation constituency, Kaduna State, said the senator included his name and forged his signature in a document purported to be an endorsement for direct primaries in Kaduna.

In a petition to the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Magaji, a former Enugu and Akwa Ibom States police commissioner said at no time did he sign any document in support of direct primaries.

The Kaduna State chapter of the APC is among states that have adopted indirect primaries for selecting candidates for the 2019 elections.

Sani, who represents Kaduna Central senatorial zone, is opposed to direct primaries, insisting that it promotes money politics and godfatherism.

Magaji, in his petition, said his integrity was at stake for being associated with the dubious endorsement.

Magaji maintained that: “As a retired Commissioner of Police, I feel disturbed by this reckless attempt to link my image and the professional integrity I have built over the years, to that dubious endorsement.

“By going as far as criminally including my name in the purported endorsement and forging my signature, Senator Shehu Sani and his collaborators have gone beyond the boundaries of law because of political desperation”.

The former police commissioner said further that “as an experienced law enforcement officer, I find this criminal act repugnant, indecent, a smear on decorum and therefore totally unacceptable.

Although Sani could not be reached as his mobile telephone was switched off, his Senior Special Adviser on Politics, Suleiman Ahmed, however, dismissed the allegations, saying aspirants supporting indirect primaries are cowards looking for patronage from the state governor.

“Senator Sani is too big to forge anybody’s signature,” he said in a telephone interview.

•Excerpted from a THISDAY report