The Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has described as absurd the allegation of fraud against him by his predecessor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, saying the former governor has no moral standing to tag him as a corrupt person.
The governor spoke through his media aide, Alhaji Isa Gusau, on Tuesday.
Gusau said the description was an "irony, laughable and absurd," claiming that the ex-governor was practically broke before
assuming office in 2003, but left "office as perhaps the richest man in Borno State and
one of the richest former governors in the country."
The governor's spokesman was reacting to an allegation by the former governor in a press briefing in Maiduguri on Monday that Shettima was corrupt.
Gusau said, "I think of all Nigerians that held public offices in the country, one man
that should seal his lips whenever issues of corrupt practices are being discussed is
former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff.
"Everybody knew he was broke before he became a governor in 2003. Today, he is practically the richest former Governor in
Nigeria, who was reported by Thisday Newspaper in 2012, to have acquired a jet worth N11bn for his luxury and he was said
to be the first African to have procured such a jet as an individual.
"This is a man that has never flown in a commercial flight in the last 10 or more years within Nigeria because he has fleets
of jets he owns. This is someone that cannot survive outside the corridor of power from the days of military.
"It is really shocking that of all people, Sheriff can open his mouth to accuse any Nigerian of corruption, let alone a good and
prudent man like Governor Kashim Shettima, who has won the hearts of so many with his numerous works for his people despite security challenges in
Borno."
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