By Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
The Borno State publicity secretary of All Progressive Congress (APC), Alhaji Makinta Zarami has alleged that Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has mislead party supporters and the public with fake information that he
is the party’s zonal leader in the North-East.
Zarami in a statement issued Thursday to journalists in Maiduguri said that it is an attempt to impersonate an existing occupant of the APC zonal office.
He further alleged that Sheriff was behind reports currently published by a section of the media claiming; he was being lobbied by the APC to return to its fold after his sack by the Supreme Court from being
National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He said that while APC had earlier maintained a dignified silence, the party has decided to speak “now that there new twist concerning impersonation of an APC office in the Northeast.”
He said Sheriff had 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.
According to Zarami; “We consider this a clear case of impersonation, because as everyone knows, the APC has an existing National Vice Chairman for the northeast; called zonal vice chairman who replaced
Babachir David Lawal after the office became vacant following Lawal’s appointment as SGF in 2015.”
He said 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.
The impersonation, according to him, was in desperation to seek political relevance after successfully creating crisis in the PDP. “The APC he left is different today, if he is to return, he will not be able to hijack the APC structure even in his own ward not to talk of Borno State or the northeast,” said Zarami in the statement,” said Zarami.
