Details of how the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kashim Shettima allegedly sponsored Boko Haram members to assassinate political opponents in Borno State have emerged.
In an opinion piece by Bolaji Mustapha titled, “The dirty side of Kashim Shettima, APC vice presidential candidate”, revealed that in January 2011, just one week to the deadline for the submission of candidates names to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the elections, the governorship candidate of the ANPP named Fannami Gubio and 7 others were gruesomely assassinated in Maiduguri.
Though, at first, when people thought it was a terrorist attack, it soon became clear that it was a well calculated political murder.
In order to erase all doubts according to Bolaji Mustapha in the opinion piece, a Boko Haram suspect named Mustapha Kolo who was held in detention reportedly stated emphatically that Kashim Shettima was a prime sponsor of political assassinations in Borno.
He went on to mention some of the people they killed for him including Anwana Ngala and Fanami Gubio, the Borno State ANPP chairman and gubernatorial candidate respectively.
Part of the opinion piece reads, “Referring with disdain and contempt, to Wazirin Adamawa, Atiku Abubakar, and Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, last week at a wishy washy event in Lagos, Kassim Shettima, the notorious APC vice presidential candidate tried to sell his equally dubious presidential candidate, a man who could not build a single hospital in Lagos as a man with ‘experience and track record’.
“But those who were clapping for him, did not appear to understand the desperate attempt by a terrorist sponsor and extremist of hate, violence and cruelty to distance himself, not just from his past but from his true person.
“In January 2011, just one week to the deadline for submission of candidates names to INEC for the coming elections then, the governorship candidate of the ANPP, Fannami Gubio and 7 others were shot dead in front of his father’s house in Maiduguri and the ANPP was forced to present Kassim Shettima as candidate.
“It was first thought to be a terrorist attack but soon it became clear that it was a well calculated political murder. To erase all doubts, a Boko Haram suspect held in detention named as Mustapha Kolo, was reported to have said emphatically that Kashim Shettima was a prime sponsor of political murders and went on to mention some of those they killed for him including Anwana Ngala and Fanami Gubio, the Borno State ANPP chairman and gubernatorial candidate respectively.
“It is instructive that Shettima’s lead presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, apart from a U. S certified court sanction for heroin smuggling activity also shares his bloody record.
“In similar circumstances to the murders perpetrated by Shettima on July 27 2006, Anthony Funsho Williams, a fearless and very popular PDP politician from Lagos State who was set to give the ruling AD a tough challenge for the Lagos governorship, was found strangled to death in his Ikoyi home.
“However, the worst atrocity in Shettima’s heinous history, was to come in 2014.
“On March 12 of that year, the Minister of State for Education, citing security reports, advised Shettima as governor, to close down all remotely located schools in Borno.
“Not only did Shettima ignore this advice, but as if acting on cue, barely a month later, on April 14th, the Girls Secondary School, Chibok, was attacked by heavily armed terrorists who took away into the dark night over 276 young girls who had sought to educate and improve themselves in a state where education of the girl child was elevated to global priority. (News Band)
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