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| Femi Fani-Kayode |
A former minister of aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) used a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to destroy the All Peoples Party (APP) during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Fani-Kayode, who served as minister of culture and tourism, was later appointed as minister of aviation during Obasanjo’s regime between 1999 and 2007.
He said anytime Sheriff was a card carrying member of an opposition party, he became a “mole, a spy and tries to destroy it from within” on behalf of the party in power. He also claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari was using him to destabilise the PDP.
Sheriff had, Sunday night on a political programme on Channels Television, said: “You listened to Fani-Kayode? That guy called me Boko Haram and I was about to take him to court when he sent 20 highly placed men, including Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to beg me. He came himself also.”
The former governor also said: “Don’t listen to him (Fani-Kayode). Remember, Boko Haram killed three of my brothers because of me.”
But reacting to the comment in a statement yesterday, Fani-Kayode, who is the director of publicity in the 2015 PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, described Sheriff as a ‘liar’.
He said the former governor had failed in ‘his plot to destroy the PDP’ because 99 percent of party members had dumped him.
“Lying Ali Modu Sheriff told Channels TV last night (Sunday) that I sent people to beg him for claiming that he was Boko Haram. These are the lies of a desperate and drowning man. He came to destroy the PDP and if we did not rise up against him and kick him out when we did, he would have succeeded in his mission.
“I am proud to have been the first to see him for what he is and to publicly blow the whistle on him,” he also said.
