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Kashim Shettima, vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he was misquoted on a recent comment he made which cited a reference to the late Sani Abacha.

Speaking on Thursday at the 96th anniversary celebration of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Ikoyi, Lagos state, NAN had quoted him as saying Nigeria needs the “hospitality” of Abacha, former military ruler. However, Shettima had said the country needs a president with “a dose of ruthlessness and taciturnity” of Abacha.

The APC vice-presidential candidate had also listed some qualities of leaders such as Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdusalami Abubakar, Ibrahim Babangida, and President Muhammadu Buhari, and said Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate, has such qualities.

We need a leader with the patience and sense of responsibility and commitment, and somebody who understands the national psyche and mood of the nation of an Abdulsalami Abubakar, and in applicable circumstance, we need a leader with a dose of ruthlessness and taciturnity of general Sani Abacha,” he had said.

“Nice men do not make leaders. We need a leader with intellectual acumen, with the passion to catapult this nation to a higher pedestal. We need a leader who is not bound by regional or religious sentiment.

“We need a leader that has established such records of excellence and commitment to good governance. There is no one, with all due respect, that fits this better than Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

Clarifying the comparison of Abacha to Tinubu in a series of tweets on Friday, the former governor of Borno said he did not attribute hospitality to Abacha, adding that he meant Nigeria needs a president who is ruthless like the late military ruler, to address insecurity.

“The obsession with distorting one’s views to settle partisan scores brings to mind a certain WBC Commentary. ‘The trouble with deliberate bias,’ it says, ‘is that it cannot be erased by sound education’. The video of my speech in Lagos is out there for those sincerely curious,” he tweeted.

“I never attributed hospitality to Abacha in my speech. I did a rundown of our past Presidents and played up ‘the taciturnity and a dose of ruthlessness of a Sani Abacha’ to show we need strongmen to deal with the non state actors who’ve turned Nigeria into a vast killing-field.

“I was quick to tease the audience, appreciating the humour hovering around the hall, with the familiar jibe that nice men don’t make good leaders. By nice men I meant those who get easily manipulated and pressured to divert state resources to appeal to private expectations.”

https://www.thecable.ng/shettima-i-was-misquoted-on-abachas-hospitality-nigeria-needs-his-ruthlessness/amp

Clarifying the comparison of Abacha to Tinubu in a series of tweets on Friday, the former governor of Borno said... he meant Nigeria needs a president who is ruthless like the late military ruler, to address insecurity.

Forget it. No sane person should be fooled by this fella with this stupid damage control. Was Kashim Shettima "ruthless" against insecurity when he deliberately endangered the lives of the poor Chibok girls by ignoring a FG high security Intel to moved the students to safer areas thereby allowing BH to kidnap them?

What "ruthlessness" was this BH kingpin demonstrating when he openly elevated the Borno state commissioner of education under his reign shortly after the infamous Chibok school girls kidnap instead of demoting or sacking her from the state civil service and handing over for criminal prosecution for abandoning her students to such cruel fate while her own daughters were ferried to safety?

Meanwhile, the said conspiring school principal thoroughly ensured that her two daughters were not within the vicinity of GSS Chibok when BH terrorists came calling.

How was Kashim Shettima still "ruthless" with the BH inflicted insecurity when one of the sect most wanted terrorists-Kabiru Sokoto the mastermind of the Christmas eve bombing in Madalla-Niger State was arrested in Borno State Liason Office in Abuja. This man is a confirm terrorist.

Even as it is as clear as glass that APC are responsible for turning Nigeria into a vast killing-field

They still want to continue


God forbids BATting .

Buhari once said that Abacha did not steal money.
So shettima and Buhari are almost same.
We are not copying Abacha in anything

Maybe his boy boy gave the interview
It's understandable

What was the essence of mentioning Abacha? Isn't this loading a gun, aiming at one's leg and pulling the trigger?

Racoon:
Forget it. No sane person should be fooled by this fella with this stupid damage control. Was Kashim Shettima "ruthless" against insecurity when he deliberately endangered the lives of the poor Chibok girls by ignoring a FG high security Intel to moved the students to safeer areas thereby allowing BH to kidnap them?

What "ruthlessness" was this BH kingpin demonstrating when he openly elevated the Borno state commissioner of education under his reign shortly after the infamous Chibok school girls kidnap instead of demoting or sacking her from the state civil service and handing over for criminal prosecution for abandoning her students to such cruel fate while her daughters were forried to safety?

Meanwhile, the said conspiring school principal thoroughly ensured that her two daughters were not within the vicinity of GSS Chibok when BH terrorists came calling.

How was Kashim Shettima still "ruthless" with the BH inflicted insecurity when one of the sect most wanted terrorists-Kabiru Sokoto the mastermind of the Christmas eve bombing in Madalla-Niger State was arrested in Borno State Liason Office in Abuja. This man is a confirm terrorist.

Shettima speaks from both sides of his mouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAYLHAUebtE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY0ancOFz-w

This is so real to be fake,A leaked conversation between Ibikunle Amosun and Shettima
.

This shettima is one good reason not to vote Jagaban

Naija see the werepe clothes wey una won wear.....

Tell me why I should vote for APC.

YOU ARE STILL TALKING NONSENSE.

Ok

GamalNasser:
This shettima is one good reason not to vote Jagaban

That's just one reason out of several.

Buhari to Tinubu is simply moving from frying pan to fire.

Any Nigerian that would vote this disaster called APC in 2023. Hmmm. Anyways, Dem no dey tell person sha.

In other words Shettima acknowledges Buhari a former General a weakling.

Let's assume it's a "slip of tongue", but hospitality and ruthless, doesn't sound nearly the same.

Mumu man, he is always giving excuses





some girls no sabi manage business, hookup wey u start last week u don get belle

Misquoted kee you dia, you mean every word you said.


Misquoted ko mosquitoed ni

“Aabacha’s hospitality” that shit scared me.

Party of criminals and liers

God have purnish him the shitima

To even mention Abacha, means even in death he is a role model to Shettima.

Thanks for the truth

No need to lie about it again

Alright

He should never have been mentioned.
Imagine referencing Hitler in a German election campaign

It is what it is. Same way one person promised top to bottom.

The damage control is more damaging than the damage. Just like when the solution to a problem has more problems than the problem it seeks to solve or creates more problems