Vice-President Kashim Shettima has recounted a 2013 incident during the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency, revealing that then-President Goodluck Jonathan attempted to illegally remove him as Borno State governor.
According to Shettima, this attempt was thwarted by the intervention of the then-Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), and the then-House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal.
Shettima made the startling revelation on Thursday at the launch of Adoke’s memoir in Abuja.
His account was centered on events under the Jonathan administration.
He said ““there are two gentlemen seated here. Certain decisions are taken in a very rare circle. The President, the Vice President, the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“In one of such conclaves, former President Goodluck Jonathan with whom we have sheathed the sword and have now recalibrated our relationship was muting the idea of removing this Borno governor.
“Aminu Tambuwal, the then Speaker of the House of Representatives had the courage to tell the President that your Excellency, you don’t have the powers to remove an elected councillor.
“The President was still not convinced, he muted the idea at the Federal Executive Council,” Shettima said.
“He even sought a second opinion from another SAN in the cabinet, Kabiru Turaki, and he agreed with Adoke. That was how the matter was put to rest,” he said.
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