A member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, merger Committee, Dr. Haruna Yarima, has said that if the party wanted to defeat the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2015, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff should not be picked as the BoT chairman of the APC.
He stated this while reacting to the report that former governor, Sheriff is set to emerge as BoT chair of the yet-to-be registered party.
Dr. Yarima said the consequence of the emergence of Senator Sheriff would be unbearable for APC and the country.
The member who represents the Congress for Progressive Change,CPC, on the merger committee, said Senator Sheriff is not a progressive and as such cannot occupy such position.
“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 antecedents of Sheriff and give him the BOT chair of APC. He does not have progressive antecedents, 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.
He added that Sheriff’s emergence “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.”
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