The factional leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and the former spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode are in war of words.
The accusation and counter-accusation began after Senator Sheriff was removed as the chairman of the PDP in May, with Mr Fani-Kayode insisting that he had link with the Boko Haram sect.
Reacting to that allegation on Sunday, Mr Sheriff described Mr Fani-Kayode, who is also a member of the PDP, as a person that changes the goalpost on every issue and should not be taken seriously.
On Monday, however, Mr Fani-Kayode told Channels Television’s political correspondent, Seun Okinbaloye, that the Factional leader of the PDP was ‘of the devil’ and a course to the opposition party that is making efforts to hold its ground after it lost power to the All Progressives Party in the 2015 Presidential election.
“These are the lies of a desperate and drowning man that came to destroy the PDP and if we did not rise up against him and kick him out when we did, he would have succeeded in his mission.
“I am proud to be the first to see him for what he is and to publicly blow the whistle against him.
“I was one of those that led the rebellion against him and orchestrated the campaign to push him out and dump him as the national chairman of our party. Many have thanked me for that including some of those that brought him in the first place and attempted to impose him on us,” he said.
Reacting further to Senator Sheriff’s comment about him, he said: “The man is of the devil and no one should believe a word that comes out of his mouth or take him seriously. He is a curse to the PDP and the sooner he is kicked out of the party the better it is for us all.
We Used Him To Spy
In response to Sheriff’s statement about him changing the goalpost on every issue, he said: “A lying Ali Modu Sheriff has changed political parties not less than four times in the last few years”.
Mr Fani-Kayode claimed that Mr Sheriff had tried to destroy different parties from within on behalf of the government of the day, insisting that that was his plan for the PDP.
“He has betrayed everyone.
“We used him to spy on and destroy the APP when we were in power. Right now he has failed and 99 per cent of PDP members have rejected him and now he is on his own,” he told Seun over the telephone.
Mr fani-Kayode further claimed that he had remained consistent with his view, but said that Senator Sheriff was more of a gangster than a politician.
This war of word is coming at a time that contradictory court rulings are coming out in relation to the leadership tussle that the party is immersed in.
The leadership crisis of the PDP had taken a new dimension with different court giving different judgements on Monday about the party’s decision to hold a national convention in Port Harcourt, which Senator Sheriff had kicked against.
