First Governor of Borno State and one time National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Ali Modu-Sheriff has described Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as the unseen chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Nigeria.

Mudd_Sheriff spoke on Thursday, when paid a private visit to Obasanjo at his Penthouse residence, within the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. 

His words, “This is purely a private visit, you know Baba (Obasanjo) is an elder statesman. If Nigeria is a company, Baba Obasanjo is the Chairman and Chief Executive of Nigeria. So, I came for consultation and have a private chat with baba.

“If Nigeria is a company, baba is the Chairman, I’m the younger one, so from time to time, I must come and greet my father, discuss with him, privately and go back."
On whether his discussion with Obasanjo was on the Nigeria project, the APC chieftain said “I didn’t say that, it is a private visit.”

The former governor, who arrived at Obasanjo’s residence at around 9.45am, went straight for a closed door meeting with the former military head of state and later President of Ngeria.
Addressing reporters after the meeting, Sheriff said visited Obasanjo who he described as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the country.
Commenting on his position on the 2023 general elections, Sheriff jokingly told reporters that, “Your view is my view, what is your view? What is my view? I want my party, APC, to win” ostensibly drumming support for the presidential bid of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
On his advice for Nigerians, he said that, “journalists are in a better, informed position to advise the politicians than us.”
Sheriff served Borno State for two terms as governor from  2003–2011 as a member of All People’s Party, APP,  later All Nigeria Progressives Congress, ANPP, before he joined the APC as a founding member of the party. 
However, in 2014, Sheriff switched affiliation to the People’s Democratic Party and acted as it's national Interim Committee Chairman from February 16, 2016 until the Supreme Court removed him following which he was replaced by the two- term governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi before, he defected to the APC on April 26, 2018.