Jonathan Believed I Was Behind Chibok Girls Disappearance – Shettima

Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, says former President Goodluck Jonathan believed he was responsible for the disappearance of Chibok schoolgirls.

Shettima said this on Thursday at the launch of a new book ‘On a Platter of Gold: How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria’, written by Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the All Progressive Congress, APC.

According to the Borno governor, Jonathan wanted to remove him in 2014, but for the intervention of Mohammed Bello Adoke, who was the attorney-general of the federation at the time, who advised him against it.

“You don’t have the power to remove even an elected councilor,” Shettima quoted Adoke as saying.

Adoke’s position was supported by Taminu Turaki, minister of special duties, Shettima said.

“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.

Abdullahi served as a minister under Jonathan from 2011-2014.

Recall that in April 2014, Boko Haram insurgents abducted 276 girls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state.

The sect released 82 of the girls in May 2016, following a prisoner-swap deal with the federal government. Five months later, 21 girls were also freed.