A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has declared the disputed National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, as a vessel of destruction.
Fani-Kayode said this in reaction to a statement credited to Sheriff that he begged the former Borno State Governor after declaring him as the face of Boko Haram.
Sheriff had on a Channels TV programme alleged that Fani-Kayode had begged him after the statement.
But Fani-Kayode in a statement last night, described Sheriff as a liar.
He said he never begged him over the issue as claimed on the television programme.
Rather, he said he remains happy that he was one of those who saw Sheriff for who he was and quickly opposed his leadership of the PDP.
Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation for the 2015 general election, in a statement to newsmen disclosed that: “Lying Ali Modu Sheriff told Channels TV 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.
“I was one of those that 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 that 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 all.
“Lying Ali Modu Sheriff has changed political parties no less than five times in the last few years.
“Each time he goes to a new party that is not in power at the center he assumes the role of a government mole and spy and tries to destroy it from within on behalf of the government of the day.
“He is more of a gangster than a politician and everyone knows it.
“He 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, the 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.”
