Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has declared that he is prepared to face the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff, in court over his allegation that the chairman is responsible for the terrorist activities in the northern part of Nigeria.
Fani-Kayode had alleged that Sheriff created the Boko Haram group, but the chairman has denied the allegation threatening to sue the party chieftain for defamation of character.
However, in a statement by Mr. Jude Ndukwe, spokesman to Fani-Kayode, the former minister said: “We read the newspaper advert in Thisday newspaper in which Ali Modu Sheriff threatened to sue Chief Femi Fani-Kayode.
“Though we have not received a formal letter from his lawyers to that effect we wish to inform him and members of the public that we stand by everything that we have said about Sheriff, we have briefed our lawyers, we welcome the suit and we shall gladly meet him in court.
“The days of silencing people with arrogant threats and frivolous litigation are long over. We cannot be silenced by Modu Sheriff’s threat to sue and we are not losing any sleep over it.
“Such a course of action will prove not only to be counter-productive for him but by the time it is all over he will get the shocker of his life.”
