- Shettima is a paid agent and liar-Gov’s aide
Amidst controversies that have trailed the purported disobedience of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to President Muhammadu on the issue of security in Benue State, the National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has berate the roles played by the Benue State governor, Chief Samuel Ortom.
Speaking to the Point in an exclusive interview, Shettima described Ortom as “a failed governor who is desperately looking for a scape goat to blame for his seemingly failure and inefficiency.”
He said it was this desperation that pushed the Benue state governor “to twist the fact on its head and misinform President Buhari that the IGP did not spend more than 24 hours in Benue State when the president reportedly ordered his temporary relocation to Benue State following the January mass killing in the state.”
Shettima added, “This is gross misinformation and distortion of facts, deliberately aimed at inciting President Muhammadu Buhari against the IGP, in a bid to compel the President to relieve the IGP of his job. We see this as a plot to cause disharmony and disaffection between two of our own and as concerned stakeholders from the region, we cannot fold our hands and watch in helplessness.
“The situation is clear and the facts are glaring; Governor Ortom is looking for a scape goat for his ineffectiveness and poor handling of the security challenge in Benue State because in reality, the IGP did obey the President’s order.
“In his haste to malign the IGP, Ortom forgot to properly brief the President that the IGP spent many days at the three flash points of Coma, Logo and Rijiin in Benue State.”
The ACF helmsman extolled and praised highly, “the astute professionalism of the IGP, Ibrahim Idris, in policing the nation”, which he said had significantly reduced the crime rate across the country and instilled discipline and order among the rank and file of the Nigeria Police Force.”
Shettima said that he did not have any personal grudge against the governor, but that he was only trying to lay bare “the truth.”
But countering these allegations, the Special Adviser to Governor Samuel Orton on Media, Mr. Tahav Agerzua, debunked the allegations as the creation of Shettima, just to malign and ridicule the governor
Speaking to the Point in an interview, Agerzua said, “These allegations are false, baseless and without substance; they are only meant to discredit the governor.
“What we have in Benue State is a crisis situation and as such, a third party that has been hired and paid cannot speak for us. If it were the people of Benue that have adjudged the governor to have failed or performed poorly in the handling of the security challenges in the state, that would have been understandable”
Agerzua said Shettima’s postulations are diversionary, a plot to draw peoples’ attention away from the crux of the matter.
He maintained that the crisis in the state bothered on the struggle for the control of the vast resources of the state, adding that the Fulani herdsmen’s umbrella body, the Miyetti Allah, had, through a press conference, threatened to invade the state and the group had lived up to its threat and nobody was doing anything about it.
He described IGP Idris as a police officer without the necessary capacity and insight required for his exalted office; “a man clearly bereft and lacking in idea.”
