Embattled
PDP chieftain, Ali Modu Sheriff has reacted to claims that he planned to make
the verbose Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose his running-mate in the next
presidential elections.
Opening
up for the first time since his war with PDP Governors started, National
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has
said that all the excuses being given by the Governors as reason for their plot
to remove him were laughable and lack any common sense.
Talking
exclusively to a correspondent, against the background of what led to his fight
with the governors, the former Borno State Governor said he never mentioned to
anybody that he wants to be President in 2019 and could not have offered the
vice Presidential slot to Ayodele Fayose, because he familiar with the Ekiti
State Governor’s antecedents and character.
According
to him, “I am eminently qualified to seek for the presidency of Nigeria, but I
have never told anybody I want to be President, but even if I want to be I
cannot offer such a sensitive position to a character like Ayo Fayose, who has
exhibited gross disrespect for others”.
The
PDP leader said, it was not true that he made promises to any of the Governors,
rather, he tried to tolerate them as stakeholders, knowing that none of them
can manipulate, bribe or dominate him to do only their biddings in a party as
big as the PDP, with so many big names on parade.
Challenging
any of those who alleged that he made promises to come up with a single proof
of any commitment he made to them or anybody for that matter, stressing,
"I am by far their senior and I have done all these things they think they
can do in the party, but I do not deserve the type of treatment they want to
mete out to me”.
Sheriff
said he is too experienced to serve as somebody’s Man Friday, or hatchet man,
rather he was being humble because that is the only way he can win back the
confidence of people in the party, as he was only interested in returning the
PDP to its former glory.
Meanwhile,
the online news platform has been investigating Sheriffs war with the Governors
and reports that, three months or there about ago, following the removal of Rt.
Hon. Uche Secondus as acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from
office, names of prospective replacement for Adamu Mu’azu were forwarded to the
National Executive Committee of the party.
Initially,
the name of former governor of Borno State Senator Ali Modu Sheriff was not
there. Rather, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff nominated former minister of the FCT,
Mohammed Abba Gana from Borno State, but endorsed the then Zonal Vice Chairman,
Girgiri Lawan from Yobe State and who was apparently the consensus candidate
from the northeast.
Source: National Trail
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