SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, (THEWILL) – Ahead of Saturday’s election in Borno State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over what it described as alleged threat by the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff, to disrupt the election.
APC said Modu-Sherrif, who is now a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has met severally with some political thugs in the state to allegedly finalise arrangements on how to disrupt the elections.
The party therefore implored security agencies to place the PDP chieftain under close monitoring an hold him responsible for any breakdown of law and order in the state capital, Maiduguri, during the elections.
Chairman of the APC in the State, Ali Bukar Dalori, who made raised the alarm in a statement , said: “The APC highly suspects that the entire plot is to unleash large scale of violence in different parts of Maiduguri with the sole aim of disrupting the elections so that Sheriff will safe his face from shame given very clear indications that the PDP doesn’t stand the slightest chance of gaining the votes it requires for the Presidential elections as well as winning any elective office in the National Assembly positions.
“The people of Borno State and other Nigerians may recall that around February 14, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff was in Maiduguri and held series of meetings with the same manner of political thugs for three days dishing out money to them and soon after he left Maiduguri on February 15, 2015, thugs believed to be part of those he sponsored unleashed terror in Maiduguri, starting with vandalisation of a PDP campaign office in order to create a false impression that APC was behind the attack and to incite a reprisal attack by supporters of the PDP with the sole aim of inflicting violence in Maiduguri. ”
“We have good reasons to believe that Sheriff is at it again because he has since arrival on Wednesday, been holding meetings with mainly thugs.”
“As a product of Sheriff’s plots, there was a violent clash between rival members of the PDP aligned to the two contenders for the PDP Governorship slot, Alhaji Gambo Lawan, recently declared by the court as valid candidate and Alhaji Mohammed Imam, anointed by Sheriff and endorsed as candidate before his removal by a Federal High Court one week ago.”
