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2023: Ali Modu Sheriff Finally Reveals Position He Is Gunning For

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Jan 22, 2022.

2023: Ali Modu Sheriff Finally Reveals Position He Is Gunning For

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ali Modu Sheriff, a former Governor of Borno State on Friday said he is eyeing the office of Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and not the Nigerian Presidency in 2023.

“Many insinuations are going around; Ali Sheriff is not looking to be Chairman, he is looking to be a presidential candidate. Please, I want to put it on record today. I am not looking to be President. I am looking to be the National Chairman to lead the Party to victory.

“I want to lead a campaign like what we did in 2014, to make sure that our father and leader (President Muhammadu Buhari) hands over power to another APC man as President. If I want to be President, I am not afraid of anybody, but I don’t want to be President but National Chairman,” Modu Sheriff told newsmen in Abuja.

Modu Sheriff is Borno State’s first governor to serve two consecutive terms (2003–2011). Though Sheriff had held two elected offices as a member of All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), he would later join the APC becoming a founding member. In 2014, the Sheriff switched allegiance to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He acted as the National Working Committee chair from 16 February 2016 until the National Convention, when he was removed and replaced by Ahmed Makarfi. On 26 April 2018, he defected back to APC.

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