The issue of Buhari’s health has
generated controversy, with some of his critics asking the president not to
seek another term based on his health condition.
Last year, the president spent
over 150 days in London, treating an undisclosed ailment.
Garba Shehu, a presidential
spokesman, had asked those opposed to Buhari’s second term to look for other
issues because by trekking such a distance, Buhari had proven that his health
is not a problem.
“He (Buhari) is curious that
these days, one or two people who are aspiring to be president are campaigning
on their youthfulness and good health.
“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 issue that are of significance to Nigerians.
The president is fit, he is healthy; he is good to go.”
But Abubakar, who disagreed with
Shehu, his former spokesman, tweeted a picture of himself at the gym and wrote:
“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.”
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 pic.twitter.com/zxkzLcWDpg— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) August 22, 2018
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