NEWS

It’s Provoking Calling For New Jet For VP Shettima — Peter Obi

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has faulted the call for a new jet for Vice President Kashim Shettima.

Obi, in a Tuesday post on X, said the lawmaker who demanded a new jet for Shettima “is insensitive and unconcerned about the prevailing economic situation in the country”

Last weekend, the Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, said Shettima’s life is at risk and he urgently needs a new aircraft. Lawan’s call followed Shettima’s aborted trip to the 2024 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa, on October 25, 2024.

Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga had said Shettima’s trip was cancelled due to damage to his aircraft by a “foreign object”.

Lawan, the speaker of Borno Assembly, Shettima’s home state, subsequently urged the Federal Government to purchase a new aircraft for the Vice President.

However, Obi said such a call was insensitive as “Nigerians are facing untold hardship at this moment is no secret”.

The former Anambra State governor said, “Such a provoking call is coming from a person who probably is oblivious of the fact that Nigeria, at present, has continued to manifest every trait of a failed state.

“We are today among one of the eleven worst-governed African nations in the last 10 years. We are also among the 20 most hungry nations in the world, with our people facing worsening mass poverty, extreme hunger and starvation.

“Our nation remains the poverty capital of the world, with our per capita income crashing further from $1700 in 2023 to $1109 this year.

Sponsored

“Are these not the issues that should be prioritized by committed leaders?

Our national electricity grid has so far collapsed 8 times this year alone and 105 times in the last ten years, plunging our small businesses into great losses and households into darkness.

“In the past 15 months, several businesses have closed down or become distressed due to the harsh economic environment in the country.

“Are these not the issues that should preoccupy us as leaders, rather than being consumed by our selfish desires for needless luxury at the expense of the people we are called to serve?

“What does Nigeria’s Vice President need a new jet for, and what value are all Presidential and Vice Presidential trips adding to our present situation?”

The Presidency had in August confirmed the purchase of a new Airbus A330 for President Bola Tinubu, a move that has been criticised by many Nigerians.

SPONSORED
Alex Enemanna

A print journalist with vast knowledge of political developments in Nigeria. Passionate about equity and fairness through robust developmental journalism.

Recent Posts

Nigeria’s Chief Of Defence Staff Hails Simon Ekpa’s Arrest, Awaits Extradition

The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, said he hoped that with the arrest…

1 hour ago

Gov. Sanwo-Olu Presents ₦3trn 2025 Budget To Lagos Assembly

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has presented the sum of ₦3.005 trillion before the state…

3 hours ago

Abia CP Storms Ohafia, Vows To Smoke Out Gunmen Who Attacked Police Officers

Abia State Commissioner of Police, CP Danladi Isa on Wednesday led an operation along Asaga…

4 hours ago

Abia Man Urges Gov. Otti To Borrow Former Governors’ Models To Tackle Insecurity

Popular Abia-born journalist and online publisher Ifeanyi Okali has called on the state governor, Dr.…

5 hours ago

Akpabio-led Senate Approves Tinubu’s Fresh $2.2bn Loan Request

The Senate, on Thursday, approved the $2.2 billion fresh loan request by President Bola Ahmed…

6 hours ago

Popular Attorney And Activist Shot Dead In Benue

Mike Ofikwu, an activist and lawyer from Otukpo, was brutally killed by unidentified armed men…

8 hours ago