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Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima has stated that he will retire Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to his village of Fombina and buy livestock for him to grow.
Shettima stated this to reporters shortly after the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal confirmed President Bola Tinubu’s victory at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday.
After expressing delight with the verdict of the Tribunal and urging his opponents to work with him, one of the reporters asked him if he was still planning to retire Atiku – one of his campaign promises.
Former Senator and Borno State Governor Shettima stated, “We have moved beyond the phase of politics. Now, we are in the phase of governance. Atiku Abubakar is an elder statesman whom I hold in very high esteem.
Anybody who knows the socio-cultural interaction between the Fulanis and Kanuris in the north would know that I have the liberty to hurl all insults at him and he’d stoically bear.
“We are not going to retire Atiku to Dubai or Morocco. I’d retire him to Fombina. I’d buy him goats, broilers, and layers so that he can spend his days rearing cows and broilers.
“On a more serious note, Atiku is an elder statesman. The nation needs him.
“Experience is not something that you can buy in the market. We’d tap into his wealth of experience and exposure to catapult the nation to a higher pedestal. Politics is over, governance is now important.”
