"I don't look like someone who would associate with Boko haram,let alone be a sponsor"-Ex-Borno Gov.Ali Modu Sherif

Immediate past governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff,has been accused severally of sponsoring Boko Haram.The ex governor who has dumped APC for PDP ADDRESSED the allegations in an interview with James Bala of the Nigerian Tribune.
I believe that if there is one person that has suffered at the hands of Boko Haram, that person is me. I cannot be a sponsor and at the same time bear the highest number of casualty. By my upbringing, my association and my relationship with people, I have never met one person that belongs to Boko Haram. No member of my family has found or arrested as a member of Boko Haram.
I lost my blood brother - same father, same mother - to Boko Haram. I lost my cousins to Boko Haram and I lost many of my friends and associates to Boko Haram. Now, I ask: who
are those people killing us?

I think those people who are making the allegations are the same people killing us. They are the same people using propaganda to give the dog a bad name so as to hang it.
I do not look like someone who would even associate with Boko Haram, let alone be a sponsor. Truth never hides its colour. I am happy today because facts have emerged. All those fabricating these lies have been arrested. Those that fabricated this so-called Stephen Davis saga are currently in the hands of security agencies. All of them have met their Waterloo. When the security agencies finish their investigations, they will let us know who asked
them to fabricate stories.
There is no way I would be chief executive of a state and a Boko Haram sponsor and killing my own relations and friends. I don’t think even the devil would kill his own.The allegation was pure fabrication by some people in this state. Everything you heard about this Boko Haram was fabricated here in Maiduguri. The photographs of those claiming to be Boko Haram commanders with Stephen Davis were taken within Maiduguri.
We now know those behind those masks. We know their locations in the state and we know the people behind the fabrication. It is very unfortunate that they allowed themselves to be used. They were all arrested and in due course, they will be presented before Nigerians to tell them who sent them to do what they did.
When the security agencies finish their work, as I said, the whole world will know who is Boko Haram and who is not. For me, I have no association with Boko Haram. I have no relationship with Boko Haram and I will never have one. I have nothing in common with people that are associated with Boko Haram. I mean, what is Boko Haram? Simply western education is Haram. Everything I became today was through western education. If western education is Haram, I could not have become a senator, I could not have become governor; I could not have become what I have become today.
If I were one of them, their belief is that anything that has to do with western education is Haram - prohibited. I cannot be sitting here and talking to you if I believe that western education or everything western is Haram. Almighty Allah will expose them very soon. Allah will deal with them. I pray Allah to expose them and punish them. Allah will deal with all those people who want to destroy our name because of mere politics.