He said his coming to PDP was to pay back the Borno state people and help to change the mistakes made in the past.

The former governor had always been in the opposition until now, but has collapsed with his previous leader and the current governor of his state Kashim Shettima, whom he helped to office in 2011.

Ali Modu Sheriff defected formally to the Peoples Democratic Party from All Progressives Congress (APC) at PDP’s national secretariat in Abuja, following our reports.

There would be no automatic waiver either for new or for returnee members of the party, the PDP national chairman Adamu Mu’azu said.

Meanwhile, he clarified that all new members would be enforced to personally write to the party headship to search for waiver to partake in the party’s primaries scheduled for next month.

“We don’t give automatic waiver like other parties. But one thing I can assure you is that anybody that will contest for any position should proceed to buy forms and apply.

“Every application is on individual basis, just write a letter and we will process it,” Mu’azu said.

It should be said Ali Modu Sheriff held a closed-door meetings with President Goodluck Jonathan this Monday.

The former governor of Borno State is alleged to be funding the violent Boko Haram militancy in the Northeast.

But Modu Sheriff has said he has nothing to do with the dreaded Boko Haram group and relating him with them was a strategy by his attackers to discolour his image.