Vice President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday said he will retire Atiku Abubakar from active politics and send him into farming of goats and birds, as he boasts after his party secured victory at the presidential election court where the election of President Bola Tinubu was being challenged.
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) declared that President Tinubu is the rightful winner of the 25th February 2023 election which the two main opposition parties Labour Party (LP) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) challenged.
“We are not going to retire him to Dubai or Morocco, I will retire him to Fombina. I will buy him goats, broilers, goats, and layers so that he can spend space rearing goats and layers,” Shettima told reporters after the judgement in Abuja.
The Vice President noted that “Atiku Abubakar is an elder statesman that I hold in very high esteem. Any body who knows the socio-cultural interaction between the Fulanis and Kanuries in the north would know that I have the liberty to hold all insults at him and he would equally bear.
“But he (Atiku) is an elder statesman- the nation needs him. Experience is not something that you can buy the market. We will tap into his wealth of experience and exposure to catapult this nation to a higher pedestals, politics is over, governance is now in full steam,” he added.
Shettima said that he was sorry for all those that he might have offended with his utterances in the course of the electioneering campaign but politics was a game of nerves not emotions.
“In politics, you have to throw jabs.” the Vice President said.
