Arewa Calls for Shettima’s Arrest over Attempts to Overthrow Buhari
A Northen Group, Arewa Citizens for Good Governance (ACGG),has called for the arrest of Senator Kashim Shettima for attempting to instigate mutiny against President Muhammadu Buhari.
The group made this known in a statement signed by its president, Comrade Silas Adamu, on Wednesday.
According to the Borno Central lawmaker’s recent remarks on national security could potentially incite serving military officers to mutiny against the current government as he suggested that the current set of service chiefs are sitting on their promotion and elevation.
The group said Shettima, who flaunts zero credentials on security matters is unfit to advise President Buhari.
The Arewa group reminded the Senator of how the intervention of the President and service chiefs stabilised his second tenure as governor of Borno State and eventual election to the National Assembly.
The group further accused Shettima of liaising with a presidential hopeful and some elements from the South to undermine the President and position himself as the most relevant politician from the North ahead of 2023.
Below is a part of the statement made by the group calling for Shettima arrest.
Statement partly reads:
Our Demands:
We demand that Senator Shettima apologises to President Buhari for the caustic remark against him which is meant to ridicule the President and portray him as a weakling and lacking in intelligence to take the right action at the right time.
The former governor should stop dabbling into security issues as he is no longer the Chief Security Officer of any state and if he has any suggestion on how to improve security, he should go through the proper channel as a senator and stop trying to play on peoples’ intelligence.
Senator Shettima should tell the people how many times he has changed cabinet when he was governor and why he had to contest the governorship position for a second time when he knew that the secret to effective administration is to keep changing those in charge.
Shettima should publicly renounce his alliance with selfish politicians who are trying to use him to pursue their 2023 agenda.
The Inspector-General of Police and Director General of the DSS should put him under surveillance to forestall further attempts to undermine the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
