Controversies have trailed the selection of Ali Modu Sheriff as the acting Chairman of the PDP and the emergence of a video of former President Goodluck Jonathan making reference to him as a friend to the founder of the dreaded Boko Haram sect. Goodluck Jonathan (Left) and Ali Modu Sheriff (Right) About two weeks after Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS), cleared a former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, of any link to the extremist Boko Haram sect in 2014, a video clip surfaced suggesting that President Goodluck Jonathan was personally aware and strongly convinced of the former’s governor’s longstanding relationship with the founder of the sect, Mohammed Yusuf who was allegedly killed by security operatives after arrest. In the video clip, shot in April 2013 during a visit he made to Borno state, Mr. Jonathan was heard describing Mr. Sheriff, who was then a member of the opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] as a “friend”...
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