22 Facts About Shehu Sani

Shehu Sani was born on 29 October 1967 and is a Nigerian senator, an author, playwright and a human rights activist.

Shehu Sani is the President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria -.

Shehu Sani was a leading figure in the struggle for the restoration of democracy in Nigeria.

Shehu Sani has been arrested and jailed by successive past military regimes in Nigeria.

Shehu Sani was released from life imprisonment when democracy was restored in Nigeria in 1999.

Shehu Sani contested and won the Kaduna Central Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressive Congress on 28 March 2015.

Shehu Sani had his primary school at the Local Government Education Authority, Badarawa Kaduna between 1975 and 1980.

Shehu Sani enrolled at the Government Day Secondary school, Kagara, Niger State, from 1980 to 1984, and proceeded to Government Science College School, Kagara, Niger State.

Shehu Sani went to the Kaduna Polytechnic from 1984 to 1993 where he earned an associate degree in Agricultural Engineering.

Shehu Sani served as the Chairman, Central Mobilization Committee of PAN-African Student Organization and President African Democratic Youth Congress.

Shehu Sani served as social Director Kaduna State Students Union.

Shehu Sani trained in the UK and Germany, and worked with the pro-Northern New Nigerian Newspaper for 30 years.

Shehu Sani was the government printer for Sokoto State from 1976 to 1979.

Shehu Sani's father had a well-stocked library where Sani advanced his studies through literary knowledge and was especially influenced on books propounding the ideals of socialism and politics of the left; this being a period of massive inflow of literature from Eastern Europe.

Shehu Sani was equally influenced by his mother, who was a community women's leader; and the likes of Aminu Kano and the Northern Elements Progressive Union and PRP radical politics.

Shehu Sani was introduced into the Campaign for Democracy, Nigeria's umbrella pro-democracy group by activists like Femi Falana and Beko Ransome-Kuti and thereafter served as the Northern Coordinator and National Vice-Chairman of the group.

Shehu Sani was first detained in July 1993 under the regime of General Babagida.

Shehu Sani was charged at a magistrate court, Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Kaduna, for sedition.

Shehu Sani was detained in various prisons: Kirikiri, Kaduna, Port-Harcourt, Enugu and Aba.

Shehu Sani is renowned for providing human rights campaign support to the poor and the disadvantage and in the process had clashed with security agents and other state power-wielders.

Tradition rulers in the conference asked that Shehu Sani be barred from further speaking when he asked for their dissolution because of their pliant support for military dictator in the past.

Shehu Sani was a Member of the Presidential Committee on National Security and Civic Responsibility.