Sheriff Is PDP’s Creation, It Should Accommodate Him – Borno APC Chieftain

Ali Modu Sheriff-PDPA former member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Haruna Yerima, has described the factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, as a creation of the opposition party and it should be ready to tolerate him.
Mr. Sheriff is currently in a leadership tussle with the caretaker committee chairman of the PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, with both sides laying claim to the leadership of the opposition party.
Yerima, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from Borno State, claimed that during the 16 years reign of the PDP at the centre, Sheriff, who was governor of Borno State for eight years during the period, worked for the party even though he was in the now defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and later briefly in the APC.
“In 2007 and 2011 presidential elections, Sheriff had worked against Muhammadu Buhari and openly campaigned for the PDP candidates”, the former Reps member said.
He also claimed that Sheriff adopted a system where he was in ANPP in Borno and PDP in Abuja, adding “Aso Rock was his second home under former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan”.
Yerima disclosed that under a peculiar arrangement, the PDP in Abuja “looked the other way while Sheriff dealt with its own members in Borno State”.
He also made reference to the failed Third Term Agenda of former President Obasanjo, saying the former Borno governor was one of the arrowheads of the purported tenure elongation plot even though he was in the ANPP, which had a presidential candidate.
Yerima stressed that to link Sheriff to the APC is most uncharitable “because it was public knowledge how he almost stalled the APC merger for PDP’s sake”.
“Sheriff’s influence in PDP was never in doubt having nominated his sister-in-law as minister in PDP administration”, he stated.
Mr. Yerima said Sheriff is patriotic, committed and loyal to no one and anybody except to himself, adding that the former governor is fighting for his political survival and relevance in Nigeria and he has “nowhere to go if the PDP rejects him”.