Gusau:-
The former factional National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff, has been accused of misleading an online media house with fake information, which declared him (Sheriff) as the new zonal leader of All Progressives Congress (APC).
The State publicity secretary of the APC, Makinta Zarami, said the case is a clear attempt to impersonate an existing occupant of the office.
Zarami, in a statement issued yesterday in Maiduguri, said 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 the national chairman of PDP.
The Borno APC said, while it had earlier maintained a dignified silence, the party has decided to speak “now that there is a new twist concerning 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 northeast.
“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.
“It is disgraceful to note that, whereas Sheriff has always boasted of being in the same category with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, Atiku Abubakar and their likes, who are national leaders of the APC, he has resorted to impersonating the office of the North east zonal vice chairman, all in his desperation to seek political relevance after successfully creating crisis in the PDP.”
He said, the same Sheriff had been responsible for all media reports, saying he was being lobbied by APC leaders.
