Spokesperson of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Council, Dino Melaye has claimed that the Vice Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kashim Shettima should be in jail “to pay for the blood of innocent citizens and the deprivation that lawful Nigerians have suffered from his private army.”
Gatekeepers News reports that Melaye, in a statement he made available on Wednesday, described Shettima as a ‘Grand Commander of Bandits’, urging Nigerians to reject him and ‘his gang’ in the forthcoming general elections.
He wrote: “Overwhelmed by the conviviality of a civil atmosphere Kashim Shettima, the Grand Commander of Bandits and the running mate of the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress ( APC), who has gathered enough funds from his field soldiers to be so intoxicated as to engage in a verbal gibberish that is only permissible in Sambisa Forest. He has been seen in footage where he was exciting a rented crowd with whimsical potshots at His Excellency Atiku Abubakar.
It was the same hallucination that made Shettima to have defined an illusory presidency where he would create an office for Boko Haram in the villa, with him in charge of the security of our precious Nigeria.
The emergence of the garrulous, intemperate and indecorous Shettima is another manifestation of the failure of APC, which after weeks of shilly-shally to fill the slot of a running mate ultimately settled for a rustic jejune whose concept of a suit is the sartorial equivalence of Babanriga.
Nigerians are again invited to critically assess the jesters in the political space whose understanding of political campaigns is the acerbic deployment of an unsterilised mouth.
The joke rested squarely on Shettima, who in an attempt to desecrate the wholesomeness of Abubakar Atiku succeeded in promoting the Presidential campaign front-runner as a productive, enterprising and job-creating office seeker who does not fit into the mould of rent seekers like Shettima and his Presidential campaign boss.
Furthermore, in attempting to cast aspersions at Atiku’s high profile Shettima only succeeded to promote him as a global citizen who is well accepted in Dubai, UAE and indeed America where he’s currently engaging in deep political activities with Nigerians in the diaspora, high profile American government officials and the American business community
Great Nigerian patriots are called upon to begin to separate the wheat from the chaff because while Shettima, Tinubu and other APC laggards focus on personality rather than programmes, Atiku and Okowa being urbane, decorous, savvy and focused have continued to conduct themselves with decency and engaging with Nigerians on the great prospects of a prosperous, competitive and high ranking nation under the impending administration of PDP.
In a decent country, Shettima ought to be in jail to pay for the blood of innocent citizens and the deprivation that lawful Nigerians have suffered from his private army. It is sad that we are in a country where the morally bankrupt, economically ruinous and intellectually incompetent administration of APC has held sway for 8 disastrous years. Nigerians must reject Shettima and his gang, because as Bob Marley sang no one can free us but ourselves.”
Melaye’s statement comes after Shettima described the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as a political tourist who comes to the country only when there is an election and returns to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to relax thereafter.
