Tell Nigerians why you took Modu Sheriff to Chad, APC to Jonathan

ABUJA—All Progressives Congress, APC, has
accused President Goodluck Jonathan of exhibiting
a shocking act of indiscretion by hobnobbing with an
alleged Boko Haram sponsor, Ali Modu Sheriff, who
is not known to have been investigated and cleared
of the weighty allegation against him.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party wondered what
message President Jonathan was sending to his
compatriots and indeed to the international
community when he took Modu Sheriff along during
his visit to Chad Monday to confer with President
Idriss Deby on cooperation against terrorism.
‘’This action by President Jonathan confirms what
the APC has always believed: That the President
either knows more than he is willing to admit on the
issue of those who are behind the Boko Haram
insurgency or he is willing to sacrifice the battle
against terrorism on the altar of political
expediency. Either way, this action by the President
is the height of indiscretion at best, or a palpable
exhibition of callowness at worst.
‘’It also confirms our fears that Modu Sheriff was
planted as a mole in the APC by his friends in high
places, who are jittery about the birth of the party
and would do anything to destabilize it,’’ it said.
APC said the President could not pretend not to be
aware of a report sent home by Nigeria’s Defence
Adviser in Ndjamena, Chad, in 2011, detailing the
suspicious activities of Modu Sheriff in Chad
concerning alleged Boko Haram sponsorship and
asking the Federal Government to investigate him.
‘’If this is a joke, it is one joke taken too far,
especially at a time that Nigeria has been losing
territories after territories to Boko Haram; at a time
that the same Modu Sheriff has been fingered by
another source other than the Nigerian Defence
Adviser in Chad, and at a time that calls are being
made for an independent investigation into the
allegation that Modu Sheriff and former Army Chief
Azubuike Ihejirika are Boko Haram sponsors.
‘’Or could it be the case of it takes a thief to catch a
thief?’’