Sheriff Hands Borno Attorney General To His Lawyer For Accusing Him Of Sponsoring Boko Haram

The embattled factional national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff has ordered his lawyers to write to the Attorney General and commissioner of Justice in Borno state, Kaka Shehu, to and demand for the immediate retraction of and apology over statements credited to him during the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA Conference in Port Harcourt, to the effect that he, Sheriff is the mastermind of the Boko Haram sect.
Modu Sheriff, in a statement by his spokesman, Inuwa Bwala, said that he had only made plans to drag the Commissioner to court and demand N10 Billion as damages.
The former Borno governor said that so far, there has never been a commission of enquiry, instituted by the Borno State Government or the Federal Government that have found him culpable, neither has there ever been a security report indicting him, as being alleged.
Modu Sheriff, who had earlier warned on the consequences of any further derogatory comments about his person in connection with the Boko Haram saga, described the commissioner’s comments, which is from all indications, the reflection of the official position of the Borno State Government, as rascally and the height of sycophancy.
Modu Sheriff said that it is the same Boko Haram he is being accused of sponsoring that made him enemy when his government began to clampdown on the radicalization of sermons, by proscribing the sect Boko Haram.
“Very often, they have pronounced death upon me. My family has remained most vulnerable. My own blood brother has been killed by Boko Haram. Three of my relations, including the Governorship candidate had felled to Boko Haram bullets. Several attempts have been made to kill me. My personal houses have been razed down by Boko Haram, amongst so many other dangers I have been facing.
“Common knowledge dictates that I could not have founded and sponsored a group that kills my brothers, burn my property and threatens my existence.”
Modu Sheriff therefore considered it most uncharitable to accuse him sponsor of Boko  Haram, adding that Boko Haram has a long and intriguing history that predated his emergence as the Governor of Borno in 2003. “It is verifiable that Boko Haram metamorphosed from the assemblage of some young Muslim radicals in  Kanama, Yobe State in 2003 and it’s  unholy pronouncements may have given rise to the radical sermons, which my Government proscribed immediately I came to power.
“Against this background, we expect the Borno state government to own up to its failure and the culpability of its officials in the book Haram saga, and stop looking for a scapegoat.” [myad]