Former Governor of Niger state and chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) over video released to prove that he is healthy amid death rumours after he travelled out of the country.
According to Aliyu, healthy people do not have to prove it.
Recall that the APC flag-bearer had been considered by many Nigerians as unfit to govern the country as a result of his ill health.
However, Aliyu while speaking during the flag-off of the PDP presidential campaign in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital on Monday said “I was looking through newspapers today and I saw a picture of somebody trying to prove he is healthy.”
“If there is health, we don’t need to tell people that we are healthy, but we are aware that Atiku is the healthiest of the presidential candidates in this country, he noted.
While decrying the level of economic challenges the country as well as the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) pledged on behalf of the party to fix the challenges if given the chance.
“The economy, there is extreme poverty in the land, therefore, members of PDP and fellow Nigerians, on the day in February, elect Atiku Abubakar because the development of any nation depends on the education of that country.”
“You have seen what has happened to us, today our students in the public universities have been at home for more than seven, eight months. Our secondary schools many of them are so dilapidated that they cannot serve as secondary schools.
“Our elementary schools, there is no country that has over 20 million children out of school and you expect to be developed, only an Atiku Abubakar presidency can help us solve this problem.”
Furthermore, he said the rising oil theft in Nigeria is a call for concern, questioning why the Federal Government has been able to track the perpetrators.
“We are expected to every day produce 2.1 million barrels of crude oil, but only last month, we were able to produce 900,000, it has gone as low as 600,000,” the PDP chieftain said.
“What is happening to the rest? Some people are stealing it, are we saying that the current government does not know those who are stealing it? They know, therefore, voting for Atiku Abubakar is saving, is rescuing, is developing Nigeria.”