Shaku-Shaku: Osinbajo Under Fire

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has come under fire for saying that he was going to learn the shaku-shaku dancing steps in preparation for the forthcoming election despite killings and the failure of his government to address the growing poverty in the land.

Among those to have hit at Osinbajo were the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP vice-presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and Senator Ben Murray-Bruce.

Osinbajo had at a book launch in Abuja last weekend observed that a politician was able to win votes through his dancing skills and that he was himself going to learn the shaku-shaku dancing step in order to enhance his electoral prospects.

“So myself and Kabir are now learning Shaku Shaku; we have to learn; who knows what will win,” he said.

The PDP vice-presidential candidate Obi who arrived the country from Dubai where the PDP is said to be planning its strategies for the election and governance said that the Atiku Abubakar team was more preoccupied “spending our time with the best minds on how to start creating jobs and putting food on people’s table and not learning how to dance Shaku Shaku”.

“I know Vice President Osibanjo is a gentleman and may not have made such a comment. However, why I am not against people dancing or learning how to dance “Shaku Shaku”, as I believe it is one of those things that is keeping our people going on in these very difficult times, I believe that the crossroads that we have found ourselves in as a nation requires sober reflection.

“For me in particular, this period calls for sober reflection not dancing or learning how to dance as there are many challenges facing our nation at the moment. Not the least being recently having our country named the world headquarters of extreme poverty with over eighty seven million people. Worse still, millions more are losing their jobs, with four million by the third quarter of this year alone.

“Millions of Nigerians go to bed hungry not knowing where the meal for the next day will come from, hundreds of thousands risk death by crossing the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea to wherever they can make a living.

“These and other challenges are indicative of the dire straits facing us as a nation today. And these are what we on the Atiku team are spending our time with the best minds on how to start creating jobs and putting food on people’s table. We must get Nigeria to start working again for the good of everyone,” the former governor stated.

Senator Murray-Bruce on his part in a tweet hit at Osinbajo saying:

“Under your watch, 11 million jobs created by other administrations have been lost, Naira has lost 80% of her value and Nigeria has been named the world headquarters for extreme poverty, yet @ProfOsinbajo’s priority is learning ‘shaku shaku’ dance? I would laugh if I wasn’t so sad.”

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