Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday dismissed the book former President Goodluck Jonathan launched on Tuesday as an “elementary book of fictions,” that lacks courage.

He said the book, ‘My Transition Hours,’ by the former president was a clever attempt to sweep incontrovertible facts on the abduction of Chibok schoolgirls under the carpet.

He also tongue-lashed the former president, who in the book among other allegations, says Shettima and the rest of the All Progressives Congress conspired in the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls.

Shettima said it was clear to him after reading the former president’s book, that “he still lives with poor understanding of issues under his presidency.”

Shettima, who said he read through the book Tuesday’s night, argued that Jonathan’s claim on page 31 that Boko Haram wanted a Muslim president was laughable because the insurgents actually began their deadliest attacks in Borno under the regime of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, a Muslim from northern Nigeria.

He said the former president deliberately omitted in chapter four of his book, an investigative report submitted to him in June 2014 by the presidential facts-finding committee he constituted in May 2014, which was mandated to gather evidence-based facts and circumstances on the abduction.

Shettima, also in his reaction to the book, contained in a statement by his spokesman, Mallam Isa Gusau, criticised the allegations contained in chapter four titled ‘The Chibok Schoolgirls Affair”, adding that Jonathan was wrong to have indicated that the schoolgirls’ abduction was a product of conspiracy by the then opposition All Progressives Congress and the Borno State Government.

He said that contrary to the claim by the former President that the Borno State Government and a former United States President Barack Obama undermined efforts to rescue the Chibok girls in 2014, the truth is that Jonathan never believed there was ever an abduction until rescue efforts were late.

“The former President’s elementary book of tales fell short of the courage required of him to publish findings by his own panel in chapter four of his book.

“The whole of Tuesday night, I took the pains of reading His Excellency, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s book, ‘My Transition Hours,’ from the first to the 177th page. I took particular interest in chapter four (the Chibok schoolgirls affair) which has 42 paragraphs written from pages 27 to 36. I was amused that despite admitting in paragraph 15 that he had (in May 2014) constituted a Presidential Fact-Finding Committee under Brigadier-General Ibrahim Sabo and many others “to investigate” the Chibok abduction, former President Jonathan refused to mention any part or whole of the findings by that panel which had submitted a highly investigative report to him on Friday, June 20, 2014, after the panel held investigative meetings with the then Chiefs of Defence Staff; Army Staff; Air Staff; the Director-General, Department of State Services and Inspector General of Police, met all security heads in Borno, visited Chibok, met with parents of abducted schoolgirls, met surviving students, interrogated officials of the school and the supervising ministry of education, interrogated officials of West African Examinations Council and analysed all correspondences.

“What has become very clear is that the former President decided to sit on facts in his custody while he published, in an elementary standard, a book of fictions designed to pass guilty verdicts to anyone but himself, with respect to the open failures of his administration to rescue our daughters and in tackling the Boko Haram challenges,” Shettima was quoted by his spokesman.

The governor declared that by refusing to publish any part of his own panel’s findings on the Chibok abduction, Jonathan’s book was nothing short of a presidential tale by midday.”

Shettima said, “For the records, on Tuesday, the 6th of May, 2014, President Jonathan had inaugurated multi-agency/stakeholder fact-finding panel under the chairmanship of Brig.-General Ibrahim Sabo (retd), a one-time director of military intelligence and also appointed a secretary from the Niger Delta. President Jonathan single-handedly selected all members of that committee which included his trustees amongst serving and retired security officers from the army, DSS and police; representatives of the United Nations and Economic Community of West African states, representatives of the Chibok community, local and international civil rights organisations, representatives of the National Council on Women Societies, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, among other persons he trusted.

“For almost two months, the probe panel undertook forensic assessment of all documents on the entire issues, held investigative meetings with parents of the schoolgirls during a visit to Chibok. The panel held separate one-on-one investigative meetings with myself, the then Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Chiefs of Air and Naval Staff, met the then Director General of the DSS and the Inspector General of Police, all of whom were appointees of President Jonathan.

“The panel interrogated officials of Borno State Government including the Commissioner of Education and the school principal. The panel also held investigative meetings with heads of all security agencies in Borno State including security formations in charge of Chibok. At the end, the panel submitted its report directly to President Jonathan on Friday, the 20th of June, 2014 in Abuja. President Jonathan has refused to make public the findings submitted to him. I was expecting the findings in his book but he has deliberately swept that report under the carpet.

“However, I remember that on June 24, 2014, the ThisDay Newspaper claimed to have obtained a copy of the panel’s report and published as its lead, that painstaking findings by the presidential panel had indicted the military under Jonathan’s watch and completely absolved the Borno State Government of any blame regarding the Chibok abduction. The newspaper went further to say that panel actually commended efforts of the Borno State Government in its commitment to the fight against Boko Haram as testified by heads of security establishments.”

Shettima added, “We know for a fact that as vicious cycle of evil, Boko Haram fighters do not care about the religion of their targeted victims. They attack mosques and churches; they are lunatics who regard anyone who doesn’t share their ideology as an infidel. So, I wonder how the former President didn’t take time to understand the biggest challenge under his presidency.”

The governor advised Jonathan to write a second book on account of his presidency which should contain the facts as have been presented to him, regarding the Chibok abduction rather than the fiction he made public on Tuesday.

https://punchng.com/jonathans-my-transition-hours-an-elementary-book-of-fiction-borno-gov/

Somebody should just try and put all this write up in one sentence

Thank you

The Boko Haram sponsor and sympathizer, Shettima. Who doesn't know that the whole boko haram saga was planned to discredit GEJ government and have something to campaign with.

Lunatics in government with no conscience.

The truth is that the abduction of Chibok girls still remains the biggest conspiracy by the northern elites till date.

They so much wanted power back to the north that anything was deemed right to do.

Today they have power. I hope they develop themselves the best so they wouldn't start whining again immediately power shifts.

bankyblue:
Somebody should just try and put all this write up in one sentence

Thank you

Read read read, trust me you won't die.

Bastard terrorist. You will not go unpunished.


Cow!

The sudden quietness is the face of continuous rampage of Boko Haram tells you the political undertones in the unfortunate abduction of innocent girls. Over the weekend, our 44 brave soldiers were massacred by these bloody demons but Shettima and co has become mute cows. No more road shows and granting of interviews to foreign media. God have mercy on us.

These boko harams always think all Nigerians are fools like the almagiris they have over there

The mere fact that President Jonathan conveniently ommited the sacred truth that it took his government two weeks to officially respond to the abduction, supports the assertion that the book is full of fictitious characters and stories.

WhyMoD:
The truth is that the abduction of Chibok girls still remains the biggest conspiracy by the northern elites till date.

They so much wanted power back to the north that anything was deemed right to do.

Today they have power. I hope they develop themselves the best so they wouldn't start whining again immediately power shifts.

then Wen buhari got into power, did they stop... Tribalism n religious Fuckery won't let us use our head normally

Mr governor write your own too.Even if yours is adventure we will still read it.


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freshtimi:
then Wen buhari got into power, did they stop... Tribalism n religious Fuckery won't let us use our head normally

what you don't understand is that terrorism is like a wild fire.
You lite it just to clear a certain peice of trash and then it goes beyond your control.
That was the case here.

And it's not only in Nigeria.
ISIS was created by the Saudis and Americans to contain the influence of Iran in the middle East. Today it has grown beyond their control.

Give people arms and they'll grow beyond your control (immediately after serving your purpose and you wanna withdraw those powers again from them).

WhyMoD:
what you don't understand is that terrorism is like a wild fire.
You lite it just to clear a certain peice of trash and then it goes beyond your control.
That was the case here.

And it's not only in Nigeria.
ISIS was created by the Saudis and Americans to contain the influence of Iran in the middle East. Today it has grown beyond their control.

Give people arms and they'll grow beyond your control (immediately after serving your purpose and you wanna withdraw those powers again from them).

Boko Haram actually started under Yar Adua

SO the Northerners started Boko Haram to kick out their son Yar Adua?

onez:
The sudden quietness is the face of continuous rampage of Boko Haram tells you the political undertones in the unfortunate abduction of innocent girls. Over the weekend, our 44 brave soldiers were massacred by these bloody demons but Shettima and co has become mute cows. No more road shows and granting of interviews to foreign media. God have mercy on us.

The quietness is just too loud. This only confirms that they know what they were doing then. More than 44 soldiers killed and no uproar or protest like they did back then.

Abeg this Boko Man should face rebuilding Borno abeg

raumdeuter:


Boko Haram actually started under Yar Adua

SO the Northerners started Boko Haram to kick out their son Yar Adua?

Yes it started during Yar Adua's time and it was all religious then but it took another dimension under GEJ, it became political. The Northern elites and power hungry APC made it political.

IamJames:
The Boko Haram sponsor and sympathizer, Shettima. Who doesn't know that the whole boko haram saga was planned to discredit GEJ government and have something to campaign with.

Lunatics in government with no conscience.

what stopped the security agency from arresting him during the tenure of GEJ?

it's obvious GEJ has not gotten over the defeat of 2015, then BOOM he decided to come up with a book of fiction to deceive his gullible followers!

raumdeuter:


Boko Haram actually started under Yar Adua

SO the Northerners started Boko Haram to kick out their son Yar Adua?

Bokoharam may have started under Yar Adua but gained prominence when interest surged. That was under Jonathan. Northern elites gave them interest and openly showed sympathy.

Remember Buhari condemned Jonathan for using force on them?
So yes the north encouraged it and made them blossom.

They may have remained local criminals without the sympathy and support they received

Omololu001:
what stopped the security agency from arresting him during the tenure of GEJ?

That's why we still say GEJ was slow in taking some decision. That's why we say GEJ contributed in making this failure of a buhari government come to be.

This Boko Haram sponsor should shut up his dirty almajiri mouth asap.

This is coming from a man that hasn't been able to secure his state since GEJ left.

I always have reasons to believe that is a terrible hush by the Northern leaders and people alike simply because Buhari is the one in office.

There are atrocities going on in the North East as we speak

Fiction induced by binging.

That man is too daft.

Ehh goan write your own na

The former President’s elementary book of tales

cry baby tales

Sai Buhari

WhyMoD:
Bokoharam may have started under Yar Adua but gained prominence when interest surged. That was under Jonathan. Northern elites gave them interest and openly showed sympathy.

Remember Buhari condemned Jonathan for using force on them?
So yes the north encouraged it and made them blossom.

They may have remained local criminals without the sympathy and support they received

El Retardeen was the one who said Shekau and his fighters are his siblings and that one can not use deadly force on their siblings.

Stop trying to twist facts like El Retardeen.

IamJames:
The Boko Haram sponsor and sympathizer, Shettima. Who doesn't know that the whole boko haram saga was planned to discredit GEJ government and have something to campaign with.

Lunatics in government with no conscience.

So, they supposed to have stop after Jonathan handed over now.

Am Sure this Governor haven't even read a paragraph of that book. He's the major sponsor of Boko Haram. It may only take time, but he will surely be exposed.

Na real fiction ooooo

IamD18:

Jonathan's my transition hours an elementary book of fiction

That man na savage walahi.

Even the Boko Haram governor is commenting...