Vice President Kashim Shettima stirred the hornet’s nest recently when he said a former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), advised former President Goodluck Jonathan not to remove him as governor of Borno State when a state of emergency was declared in the state.
Speaking in Abuja at the public presentation of a book titled ‘OPL 245: Inside Story of the $1.3 billion Nigeria Oil Block’, authored by Adoke, Shettima stated that during the final four years of Jonathan’s administration, he was the most demonized individual.
Shettima was governor of the insurgent-ridden Borno State from May 2011 to May 2019. At the peak of the insurgency, on December 31, 2011, Jonathan declared a state of emergency in some local governments in Borno and Plateau states.
