The running mate of Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, Sen. Dati Baba-Ahmed, on Friday explained his reasons to team up with the former Governor of Anambra State.
Baba-Ahmed during his formal unveiling in Abuja on Friday, as Obi’s running matesaid he opted to be Obi’s Vice president because he believes in his capacity to make Nigeria great again.
According to him, the trusts in has in Obi, that he would not mismanage the nation’s wealth was what endeared him to the former Governor of Anambra State.
He added that the Labour Party’s Candidate’s outing as Anambra governor lends credence to his believe in Obi’s agenda.
The Director General of the Peter Obi Campaign Organization, Dr. Doyin Okupe, who has been acting Vice Presidential candidate on a placeholder status stepped down on Thursday.
He resigned to pave way for the substantive running mate from the northern extraction to balance the geo-political and religious considerations.
The LP entered into merger talks with the Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP), but the talks collapsed due to the inability of the parties to agree on who would be the eventual flag bearer if the merger arrangements had worked.
Since Peter Obi emergence as LP’s presidential candidate, both the party and Obi have being receiving massive acceptance across the country especially among the youths and has metamorphosed into a campaign known as #Obidient Movement with the slogan: #TakeBackNaija.
Checks by The Network gathered that the LP presidential running mate, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is a 46 year old academics, businessman and politician.
“He was a member of the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007, and was elected Senator for Kaduna North, in Kaduna State, in April 2011 running on the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) ticket, with a remarkable record for sponsoring important bills and motions in short time.
“In 2011, Senator Baba-Ahmed established Baze University, an independent university located in Abuja, and Baba-Ahmed University, Kano (Awaiting License).
“In 2015, Baba-Ahmed was appointed as Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Hope Alive Foundation, which campaigns for post-service economic survival of corps members who suffered permanent disability during service.” His profile reads