I Can’t stop Anenih’s BOT membership – Sheriff denies initial statement

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has disowned a statement credited to him to the effect that he disapproves of the re-admittance of Chief Tony Anenih into the Board of Trustees, BOT of the party.

Sheriff said the alleged statement was an embar­rassment to him as he neither said so nor au­thorise anybody to say so on his behalf and that he has nothing against Chief Tony Anenih or any member of the BOT of the PDP to warrant his oppo­sition to their being in the august body.

In dismissing the in­sinuations through a press statement signed by his Special Adviser Media and Publicity, Inuwa Bwala, as the handiwork of mischief makers, who are bent on driving a wedge between him and fellow Nigerians, Sheriff maintains that, “he could not be moving against people at a time he needs every party mem­ber on board to move the PDP forward.”

He said people should not use his name to ad­vance their selfish per­sonal interests, noting that, he holds the elder statesman, Chief Anenih with a sense of rever­ence and “could not have made any remarks that will embarrass or bring Chief Anenih into disre­pute,” the statement con­cluded.