How Modu Sheriff Was Arrested By Cameroon For Sponsoring Boko Haram- Femi Falana

Lagos based human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, yesterday, revealed how Former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff was arrested in 2012 by the Cameroonian government for the crime committed by the deadly Boko Haram sect.

Meantime, ahead of the 2015 election, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Professor Tam David-West, Professor Akin Oyebode and Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, have, unanimously, urged Nigerians to wake up from their slumber and use the next year’s election to bring relief to their unwholesome circumstances.

Falana and other eminent personalities spoke at the 5th Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Lecture, titled; ‘State of the Nation and 2015 general elections: Issues, posers and challenges before us, held in Lagos.

“In October 2012, Sheriff was arrested in Cameroun on crime committed by the Boko Haram he sponsored. The state government pleaded with the Camerounian government to release him because he is a well known man here and he cannot be arrested.” Falana stated.

FEMI FALANA REBUKES APC FOR WOOING OBJ AND OTHERS

Femi Falana Leaders and chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) made a political pilgrimage to the Hilltop residence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday in Abeokuta, reports Nigerian Tribune. However, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana, has described moves by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to woo some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as antithetical to spirit of progressive politics. “It is the belief of the leaders of both APC and PDP that the 2015 general election is going to be fixed by the traditional manipulators of elections. This is the basis of the ongoing mobilisation of PDP chieftains, including those who cannot win elections in their own wards. By wooing discredited military and civilian despots who have destroyed the country since 1966, the APC has shown that it is only interested in power for the sake of power. “I understand that one of the retired generals is going to become the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the APC. This is a case of alienation from the people. "How can APC leaders believe that Nigerians want Generals Obasanjo and Babangida to be rehabilitated after destroying the country? The duo ruled for 20 years and ruined the country in the process," he said. “General Obasanjo has just confessed that he has been installing incompetent leadership since 1979. And he is not ashamed to make that provocative disclosure. "Has he offered public apology for his maxima culpa before wooing him? The situation is not different in a number of states and local council areas where the new PDP is busy taking over all the structures of the APC. Since the APC is positioning itself to retain the status quo, it cannot become a truly progressive party.”