Sheriff's Mission to Killed PDP Has Failed, Says Fani-Kayode

Sheriff's Mission to Killed PDP Has Failed, Says Fani-Kayode

Former Aviation Minister and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Femi Fani-Kayode, today accused the former National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, of pursuing a fruitless mission to destroy the party.

He also alleged that just as the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, allegedly used Sheriff to destroy the All Peoples Party (APP), President Muhammadu Buhari is also using the former governor of Borno State now to try to destroy PDP.

The former aviation minister had while opposing the appointment of Sheriff as the national chairman of the PDP, described him as a Boko Haram sponsor, a comment that led to the former governor threatening to go to court.

Speaking on the frequent changing of political parties, Fani-Kayode said Sheriff has changed political parties not less than four times in the last few years.

"Each time he goes to a new party that is not in power at the centre, he assumes the role of a government mole and spy trying to destroy it from within on behalf of the government of the day.

"That is his modus operandi. On return, he gets protection from the state for all the many atrocities he has committed over the years. He has betrayed everyone and every political party he has ever worked with or for.

"Go and ask around. We used him to spy on and destroy the APP when Obasanjo was in power, and now Buhari is using him to destroy the PDP.

Luckily, he has failed because 99 per cent of PDP members have rejected him and now he is on his own," Fani-Kayode said.

However, Sheriff had said in an interview with Channels Television last Sunday that but for former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, and 20 others, who came to beg him, he would have taken Fani-Kayode to court for calling him a Boko Haram member.

In a statement issued yesterday, Fani- Kayode said the former Borno State governor lied.

"Lying Sheriff told Channels TV last night that I sent people to beg him for claiming that he was a Boko Haram member. These are the lies of a desperate and drowning man,” he said.

Fani-Kayode pointed out that Sheriff's mission in PDP was to destroy the party, just the way he did to other political parties he had a stint with.

According to the former minister, "He came to destroy 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.

"I was one of those who led the rebellion against him and orchestrated the campaign to push him out and dump him as the national chairman of our party and many have thanked me for that including some of those who brought him in the first place and attempted to impose him on us.

"The man is of the devil and no-one should believe a word that comes out of his mouth or take him seriously. He is a curse to the PDP and the sooner he is kicked out of the party, the better it is for us."

He insisted that he still stand by his views, adding that Sheriff does not have the courage to be loyal to any cause, any person or any political party.

"He (Sheriff) comes into another man’s house or political party and tries to pull it down by deceit and guile.  He is a vessel of destruction. That is the man who some misguided people believe can be trusted. He was in APP, then ANPP, then APC and now he is in PDP, all in a matter of a few years and everywhere he goes, he fights everyone until they get tired of him and push him out.

"If anyone wants to talk about ‘changing goal posts’, it should certainly not be him," Fani-Kayode said.