Dati Baba-Ahmed: Why I Joined Peter Obi’s Ticket As Running Mate

Hamilton Nwosa
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Dr. Dati Baba-Ahmed, running mate to Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has given the reason why he joined the ticket of the former Anambra Governor.

Speaking during his official unveiling in Abuja on Friday, Baba-Ahmed said he accepted to be Obi’s running mate because he believes in his capacity to make Nigeria live up to its billing.

Baba-Ahmed added that Obi he believes would not mismanage the nation’s wealth.

Recall the Director General of the Peter Obi Campaign Organization, Dr. Doyin Okupe, who has been a Vice Presidential candidate placeholder, had stepped down on Thursday.

His resignation was to pave way for the substantive running mate from the northern extraction to balance the geopolitical and religious considerations.

The LP entered into merger talks with the Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP). However, 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 scaled through.

Obi’s candidacy has metamorphosed into a campaign which is now known as the #Obidient Movement

The LP presidential running mate, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is a 46-year-old academic, 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.

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