If Ali Modu Sheriff Becomes APC BOT Chair, APC Will Lose To PDP Says Yarima
He Is Not A Progressive
He Plays Destructive Politics
He Will Create Hegemony Of Sycophant And Political Bootlickers
Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff cannot emerge as the BOT chair of the All Progressives Congress (APC) if the party wants to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 presidential election, a member of the APC merger committee, Dr. Haruna Yarima has said.
Reacting to the report that former governor Sheriff is set to emerge as APC BOT chair, Dr. Yarima said the consequence of the emergence of Senator Sheriff would be unbearable for APC and the country.
Dr. Yarima who represents the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the committee, said Senator Sheriff is not a progressive and as such cannot be chairman of the party’s BOT.
“There was nothing like that in our last meeting of the APC. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, General Muhammadu Buhari and Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau cannot be so much carried away by the merger issues to forget so soon the antecedent of Sheriff and give him the BOT chair of APC. He does not have progressive antecedent, character and principle. He does not have simple principles.
“We know the way he played destructive politics in Borno State. If given, he will continue to play politics of subjugation, vindictiveness and systematically destroying everybody that is progressive. Giving him the chair position is to give him avenue to continue dealing with his passive political enemies as he did in Borno state,” he said in a telephone interview.
If given, he said Sheriff “would create hegemony of sycophant and political bootlickers, he will also try everything possible to stop General Muhammadu Buhari from emerging as APC presidential candidate. General too knows this and we all know it,” he said.
He advised the promoters of the APC not to nurse the idea of given Senator Sheriff the BOT chair.
