Kashim Shettima, governor of Borno
state, says President Goodluck Jonathan nearly removed him in 2014 with the
belief that he was responsible for the disappearance of Chibok schoolgirls.
Adoke’s position was supported by
Taminu Turaki, minister of special duties, Shettima said.
He was speaking on Thursday at
the launch of ‘On a Platter of Gold: How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria’,
written by Bolaji Abdullahi — who served as a minister under Jonathan from
2011-2014.
”The people around Jonathan told
him that I was hiding the girls, that there was no abduction. They said I was
hiding the girls to embarrass him,” he said.
He described Jonathan as a
“decent person” who was misled by the people around him.
”The whole world was talking
about the abduction for three weeks before Jonathan spoke with me for the first
time. He summoned the principal of the school and the commissioner for
education to Abuja and ordered the IG to arrest them,” Shettima said.
He also revealed that the police
commissioner and Chibok DPO were
summoned while the brigade commander, who was an Ijawman, was left out.
”Those who advised the president did not want him to know the truth. They knew that the Ijaw officer, who was a captain, would tell a more credible story,” the governor said, insinuation that the kidnap narrative was shaped to present it as a northern conspiracy again Jonathan.
It was a conspiracy of some stupid notherners of which you were part of them. If not why did you decide to "reward" the principal of chibok school with a political appointment in your second tenure? It was widely reported that you gave her a political appointment and people reacted to that. What I do not know now is if you later dropped her because of public reaction or you went ahead with your decision. David
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