The running mate to Atiku
Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter
Obi, has mentioned that the country’s leaders should be more focused on moving
the nation forward and not learning how to dance Shaku Shaku.
Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo had said he is learning the dance step ahead of the 2019 general
election.
Speaking with journalists
at the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport in Abuja upon his arrival from Dubai on Monday,
Obi said the Atiku team is spending its time thinking of how to create jobs and
not learning how to dance Shaku Shaku.
“I have not had the
opportunity of reading his comments as I haven’t seen the dailies. I know
Vice-President Osibanjo is a gentleman and may not have made such a comment,”
Obi said.
“However, while I am not
against people dancing or learning how to dance ‘Shaku Shaku’, as I believe it
is one of those things that is keeping our people going on in this very
difficult times, I believe that the crossroads that we have found ourselves in
as a nation requires sober reflection.
“For me in particular, this
period calls for sober reflection not dancing or learning how to dance as there
are many challenges facing our nation at the moment.
Not the least being
recently having our country named the world headquarters of extreme poverty
with over eighty-seven million people. Worse still millions more are losing
their jobs, with four million by the third quarter of this year alone.
“Millions of Nigerians go
to bed hungry not knowing where the meal for the next day will come from,
hundreds of thousands risk death by crossing the Sahara and the Mediterranean
Sea to wherever they can make a living.
“These and other challenges
are indicative of the dire straits facing us as a nation today.
And these are what we on
the Atiku team are spending our time with the best minds on how to start
creating jobs and putting food on people’s table.
We must get Nigeria to
start working again for the good of everyone.”
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