The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi has rubbished a recent call by the Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, demanding that the Nigerian government should buy a new private jet for vice president Kashim Shettima.
Lawan made the call following an incident on October 25 at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the United States, where a strange object reportedly hit Shettima’s jet, forcing him to cancel his trip to the 2024 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa.
While addressing newsmen last Sunday, Lawan had called the government to immediately purchase a new private jet for the VP as his life was in danger due to the old and faulty presidential aircraft.
