Former Vice President and frontline presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said ability to walk should not be construed as a yardstick for performance in public office.
Abubakar, who said this on his Twitter handle on Wednesday, was apparently referring to the publicity given by the Presidency to the walk from the Eid ground to his house by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.
President Buhari was credited with walking 800 metres from the Eid ground to his home in Daura, Katsina State after the prayers to mark the Eid Adha.
Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, said the walk was a sign that the President was set for the 2019 elections.
President Buhari has declared interest in the race on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.
But writing on his Twitter handle on Wednesday, Abubakar said: “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.”
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