Sheriff not our leader in North East — Borno APC

Erstwhile National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, is not the zonal leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North East, the Borno State chapter of the APC has said. The party said an online media report which described Sheriff as the North East leader of the party was misleading and that it was an attempted impersonation because the office was not vacant.

The State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Makinta Zarami, alleged in a statement issued in Maiduguri, yesterday, that Sheriff was also behind reports previously published by a section of the Nigerian media claiming he was being lobbied by the APC to return to its fold after his sack by the Supreme Court as PDP chairman.

The Borno APC said while it had earlier maintained a dignified silence, the party decided, “to speak now that there is a new twist concerning the impersonation of an APC office.

“As it must have been observed, some media promoters of Ali Modu Sheriff have been using the social media to share an online story claiming that the APC national secretariat has appointed Sheriff as the new leader of the APC in the North East.

“We consider this a clear case of impersonation, because as everyone knows, the APC has an existing National Vice Chairman for the North East, otherwise called Zonal Vice Chairman, who replaced Babachir David Lawal after the office became vacant following Lawal’s appointment as SGF in 2015.

“The same Sheriff has been responsible for all media reports saying he was being lobbied by APC leaders. He is just doing everything to seek relevance,” the statement said.