by Eze Eluchie,
Is the
nomination of Kashim Shetima, a close buddy and erstwhile colleague in the
Bornu State Cabinet of Boko Haram founder, Muhammed Yusuf, as Vice Presidential
candidate of the APC indicate the culmination of efforts by the current regime
to hand over the realms of power in Nigeria to Boko Haram terrorists? This
question is quite germane considering the advanced age and publicly observable poor
health of the APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
We must
recollect the following facts:
1. It was Kashim Shettima, as Governor of
Bornu State Government who directly overruled the written instructions of the
Federal Government to relocate the students of all schools participating in the
West African School Examinations and NECO Examinations away from the frontlines
of Boko Haram activities. The infamous Chibok abductions took place within exactly
4 weeks of the Federal Government order being disobeyed.
2. Within days of the Chibok ‘abductions’,
whilst rebuffing efforts by the Federal Government to unravel what actually
transpired in Chibok, the Governor Kashim Shettima was crisscrossing the
capital cities of Western capitals deviously politicizing the terror attacks on
Chibok – by the time the Goodluck Jonathan realized what was happening, they
had permanently lost face and relevance before the international community, and
the fall of the said Federal Government was merely a matter of time.
3. Oddly, no government employee (Chibok
school official) was abducted by the terrorists, who allegedly carted away over
300 students in unknown number of trucks to unknown destinations.
4. On February 28th, 2013,
Kashim Shettima had led the infamous *walk of infamy* down major streets of
Maidugri, alongside some opposition elements to show solidarity with Boko Haram
and thus invincibility from attack by the terrorists – on a day several
Nigerian soldiers had been killed in bombing attacks undertaken by Boko Haram
in the Bornu State capital.
5. In the period when Boko Haram was allegedly
in control of his State, Kashim Shettima kept on collecting all due allocations
for all Local Government Councils of Bornu State (despite the alleged control
of such areas by BH
Proper
auditing of any connections between this Kashim Shettima fellow and extremist
Islamist terrorist organizations, inclusive of Boko Haram, ought to be
undertaken by requisite security agencies, domestically and internationally, to
ensure a surreptitious handover to terrorists is avoided.
Picture: Kashim Shettima, APC VP
candidate
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