Vice President Kassim Shettima has said that during the time of Goodluck Jonathan as President while he was Borno governor, he was viewed as public enemy number-one.
Shettima stated this at the book launch entitled: ‘OPL 245: Inside story of the $1.3 billion Nigerian oil block’ authored by Bello Mohammed Adoke, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice at the time Jonathan was in charge of the country.
The VP claimed he was hounded by Jonathan that time, adding that the latter made futile efforts to remove him as governor.
In the remark, Shettima gave the credit of his survival of the then President’s plot to the book author and the then House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal.
“In the last four years of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, I was the most demonised person; I was the public enemy number one.
“There are two gentlemen seated here. Certain decisions are taken in a very rare peace circle of 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 sheath the sword and have now recalibrated our relationship, was mooting the idea of removing the Borno governor.
“Aminu Tambuwal, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, had the courage to tell the President that he did not have the powers to remove an elected councillor.
“The President was still not convinced, he mooted the idea at the Federal Executive Council,” he narrated.
