{"id":78384,"date":"2025-11-09T04:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78384"},"modified":"2025-11-09T04:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:14:06","slug":"sheriff-refutes-report-linking-him-shettima-to-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/09\/sheriff-refutes-report-linking-him-shettima-to-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Refutes Report Linking Him, Shettima to Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, has dismissed as fake news reports claiming he accused Vice President Kashim Shettima of creating Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement from his media office in Abuja, Sheriff described the publication titled \u201cIt\u2019s Not Me, It\u2019s Shettima Who Created Boko Haram, Sheriff Reveals\u201d as false and malicious, saying he never granted such an interview.<\/p>\n<p>He said the report was aimed at tarnishing his image and stirring division among North-East leaders, stressing that he and Shettima share mutual respect and have no rift.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff added that his legal team had been directed to identify and prosecute those behind the defamatory content.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the public to disregard the story and reaffirmed his commitment to peace and national unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, has dismissed as fake news reports claiming he accused Vice President Kashim Shettima of creating Boko Haram. In a statement from his media office in Abuja, Sheriff described the publication titled \u201cIt\u2019s Not Me, It\u2019s Shettima Who Created Boko Haram, Sheriff Reveals\u201d as false and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78386,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78384\/revisions\/78386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}