Former Vice President and presidential aspirant of the leading opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the 800 kilometres walk by President Muhammadu Buhari home from Eid ground in Daura, Katsina State on Tuesday.
He said it was pedestrian to seek re-election based on 800 kilometres
In a statement issued on Tuesday by the president’s media aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, the walk was an indication that the president was fit to seek re-election in the 2019 general election.
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Said he: “I think the president has done one thing today – that the issue is not how old one is but how fit is he; how healthy is he. Now that the president has proven his fitness and well-being to continue in office is a settled matter. I think that if people want to campaign against him they should do so on issues that are of significance to Nigerians. The President is fit, he is healthy; he is good to go.’’
But in his reaction to that, Atiku on his twitter handle, said it would be pedestrian to ask Nigerians to vote based on how much he jogged or exercised.
According to him, he was ready to work and not walk.
His tweet reads: “I regularly jog more than a mile & exercise, but it will be pedestrian of me to ask Nigerians to vote for me because of that. I want my party – the PDP, and Nigerians, to vote for me because I WORK not because I WALK. I will work to create jobs. I won’t walk to create an illusion.”
