I’m a victim, not sponsor of Boko Haram, Ali Modu Sheriff tells APC

I’m a victim, not sponsor of Boko Haram, Ali Modu Sheriff tells APC

…FORMER Borno State Governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, yesterday, scolded the All Progressives Congress and the Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davies for linking him with the sponsorship of Boko Haram activities in Nigeria.

Addressing a world press conference in Abuja, Sherriff lamented that he was wrongly linked with the violent group, as he had no relationship whatsoever with the sect.
The former governor lamented that he was rather a victim of the sect, which did not only kill his brother, Alhaji Goni Mustapha Sheriff, but also took the lives of his brother-in- law, Alhaji Awana Ngala; the 2011 gubernatorial candidate, Engr. Modu Gubioa and his bosom friends, Alhaji Mustapha Fulawama and Bukar Goni Kolo, among others.

Sherriff, who distanced himself from the activities of Boko Haram, pointed out that he never met the late leader and founder of the group before he was arrested and killed in circumstances that were being investigated by security agencies.
He said: “It may interest you to know that it was the government of my predecessor in office, the late Alhaji Mala Kachallah that introduced Sharia Law in the state in the year 2000.

“Interestingly, the late Mohammed Yusuf, leader of the Boko Haram sect was a member of the Committee, among other Islamic scholars.
“If indeed there was an agreement between the sect and my predecessor on the issue of Sharia Implementation, I am not aware of it, as I was neither in government then nor was I a party to it.

“Let me state categorically at this point that I do not share the ideology of the Boko Haram sect, which is against western education, western culture and modern science or any other sect with similar ideology.
Sherriff threatened to sue the APC and the Australian, Davies for making the allegation against him, without sending his so-called findings to the Federal Government, which he claimed hired him to do the job.

He wondered why the report of his findings should first be aired on Arise Television only instead of being presented to the Federal Government for consideration.
Sherriff said: “”It is rather curious that the campaign against me is becoming more stringent at the time I decided to take Borno into mainstream national politics by joining the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.