The vice presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC Kashim Shettima has described Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as a ‘political tourist’ that needs to be retired.
Shettima, a former governor of Borno state said the former number two will be retired in 2023 and sent to political oblivion forever.
He described his principal and Presidential candidate of the APC as a bridge builder who will unite the people of this country.
According to him, Atiku has not done anything for his people to earn their votes, adding that the former vice president prefer living in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, UAE than Nigeria.
He said he only returns home during the period of the election.
The APC vice presidential hopeful spoke when playing hos to a group in the party, APC National Integrity Movement, in Abuja on Sunday.
He described Atiku as “a political tourist who is only in this country’s electoral circle and we are going to retire him back to Dubai to go and relax.
“In every situation, for people to see your worth, they need to see your output at home. I am from the north-east – he is from the north-east.
“Atiku cannot point to three projects that he brought to the north-east or to Northern Nigeria for the eight years that he served as the vice president. He cannot show us three people that he has mentored.”
“The trajectory of global growth is facing Africa and Nigeria will make or mar that transition. That is why I will rather be a small fish in a big pond than be a big fish in a small pond,” he said.
“I supported Asiwaju out of a moral obligation, out of a moral conviction. What we have seen is his opportunity for national collaboration and national cohesion. When the frontlines that divide us were being manipulated for political ends, Asiwaju refused to swallow the pill.
“Nigerians of the younger generation must know Asiwaju’s history of two decades past when he stood firm as the fulcrum to a despotic PDP government in this country when he was viciously maligned and ostracised and that was when he laid the foundation for modern Lagos state.”
Atiku has been widely criticized for spending most of his time in UAE.
No sooner than he won the PDP presidential ticket in May, Atiku flew to the Arab nation where he hosted some party stalwarts to strategize ahead for next year’s election.
He’s believed to own a shell of choice properties in the Arab nation.
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