The Special Adviser to Shettima on Communication, Mr. Isa Gusau, said the plot was designed to undermine the joint effort aimed at tackling insurgency in the troubled North-eastern state.
Gusau, in a statement yesterday, said the state government had contemplated ignoring the group but for the fact that silence to the group was capable of negatively affecting the existing coordination among the presidency, the military and the state government, which he said would not be in the interest of everyone.
According to him, the cabal had a single agenda which is to create problems among the presidency, military and the Borno State government in order to dubiously secure the political blessings of the presidency and top ranks of the military with a view to seizing control of the military, the police and the State Security Service (SSS), as a way to divert the security’s attention away from counter insurgency, drag them into politics, destabilise the polity and use security agencies in furthering their political ambitions ahead of the 2015 elections.
“The cabal has been deploying all possible means including publishing false reports and spreading same on the social media to accuse the state government of so many wrong doings that include unimaginable financial misappropriation that is beyond the income of the state, making efforts for personal contacts with a section of the military and other security agencies in Abuja and to feed them with falsehoods aimed at creating an impression that the state governor and his administration were funding insurgents, making efforts for personal contacts with close associates of the presidency and other presidential aides to induce and talk them into misinforming and misleading the presidency on false roles of the state government as well as creating an impression through the same channel that Shettima had vowed to ensure the president was not re-elected, all in a bid to sever any kind of relationship among the presidency, military and the state governor and his administration, mainly for selfish political interest at the expense of the stability of the state,” said.
He added that in the early hours of June 29, the cabal created a sham Facebook account, bearing the name and picture of Shettima and started posting mischief materials and that “on Monday morning, the cabal published a complete falsehood raising all manner of allegations in line with their agenda, on a newspaper associated with them, while on Tuesday morning, the same cabal planted a fictitious and evil minded interview on a website site it created to pursue its agenda, claiming in the interview that a certain arrested and detained member of the Boko Haram (that is none existent) had admitted to being sponsored by Shettima and some officials close to him, all in a vicious and inhuman attempt to set the presidency and the military against the governor and the administration with 2015 elections at the back of their minds.”
The governor’s media aide noted that contrary to what the group is planning to play up, successive commanding officers of the military, the police, Department of Security Service (DSS) and other security agencies working in the state from 2011 when Shettima was elected and sworn-in, till-date, have always acknowledged the outstanding support their formations have received from the administration.
While he stated that the governor was not desperate about re-election, Gusau said his boss was particularly concerned about the deaths of citizens in the state and the need for synergy between the state and federal establishments to sustain a coordinated fight against insurgency so as to secure precious human lives and property.
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