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Was it not yesterday (Sunday) they said they had appointed him (Shettima)? How come I granted interview at the APC secretariat?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody called me. No journalist called me, except when this thing happened, when the papers were carrying it viral, then people were calling me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I\u2019m somehow angry and not even composed to talk very well. The story they are carrying was in 2017 when Boko Haram was devastating Borno when Kashim Shettima was the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey picked that story and I, being CAN chairman, they now levelled it against me. 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