I regularly jog more than a mile but won’t ask Nigerians to elect me based on that – Atiku

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has taunted President Muhammadu Buhari over the comment that the president is fit for another term because he trekked a distance of 800 meters in Daura, Katsina state, on Tuesday.
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.”

 …as Okupe makes U-turn after backlash, says he can’t  insult ex- vice president

A former aide of ex-Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo, Doyin Okupe, has denied kicking against the presidential bid of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
Abubakar, a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he is one of the party’s presidential aspirants.
Okupe had said Abubakar becoming Nigeria’s president even for a day would draw the country backwards.
“If Atiku rules Nigeria for 1 day, it will take us 10 years to recover. If Saraki rules for a day, Nigeria will (bxexcxoxmxe) make history,” he had written via his Twitter handle.
The statement had generated criticisms. Some Nigerians, including Reno Omokri, who was also an aide to Jonathan, had fired back at Okupe.