The embattled factional Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sen Ali Modu
Sheriff, has declared that as a Nigerian, he’s has
what it takes to be the country’s President.
Speaking on a Channels Television Programme,
Sunday Politics, the former Borno State
governor also described himself as a highly
principled individual, who believes in democracy
and the rule of law.
According to the embattled Chairman, he has
paid his dues in politics and can serve in the
highest office in the land.
Sheriff said, “I have never told anyone that I
want to be the president or run for the office of
the president, but I have a right. I am a Nigerian
qualified to be a president. Yes I have the right.
“I am a highly principled person. If as a founding
father of the All Progressives Congress, I could
walk out of the convention, then you would
know that I am principled.”
On reports that he intends to step down in 2018
in order to pick the party’s presidential ticket,
Sheriff said, “It is a pure lie. Absolute
fabrication, I didn’t discuss such with anybody.
The party zoned the presidency to the north,
and northern Nigeria is not for Ali Sheriff alone.
“The fact of the matter is that I have never told
anybody anything like that,” he added.
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