A former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has declared readiness to meet the national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff in court.
The former minister had condemned in very strong terms the emergence of Mr. Sheriff as national chairman of the party, accusing him of being a founder of Boko Haram.
But the PDP chairman, a two-term governor of Borno State, in an advertorial, threatened to sue Mr. Fani-Kayode for libel even as he vowed not to work with those fomenting crisis within the opposition party.
In his reaction to Sheriff’s threat to sue, the ex-minister, in a statement yesterday by Jude Ndukwe, his spokesperson, said: “Though we have not received a formal letter from his lawyers to that effect, we wish to inform him and members of the public that we stand by everything that we have said about Sheriff”.
Mr. Fani-Kayode, who was spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, said he had briefed his lawyers and they are ready to entertain any suit Mr. Sheriff may file against him in court.
“The days of silencing people with arrogant threats and frivolous litigation are long over”, the statement continued. “We cannot be silenced by Modu Sheriff’s threat to sue and we are not losing any sleep over it”.
Mr. Fani-Kayode pointed out that any move by Senator Sheriff to sue him will prove in his words, “not only to be counter-productive for him, but by the time it is all over, he will get the shocker of his life”.
