Vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election,
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said Peter Obi and other opponents of President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election cannot improve Nigeria.
As Tinubu, standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), seeks a second term in office in January,
Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) are Tinubu’s leading opponents bidding to unseat the former Lagos state governor.
Speaking on the MicOn Podcast on Saturday, Baba-Ahmed stated that none of the top candidates for 2027 has what it takes to move the nation forward.
Baba-Ahmed, who was Obi’s running mate in 2023, stated that the latter and Atiku are among the crop of politicians who brought Nigeria to its present situation.
“I will simply advise uncle(Tinubu) to please prepare to hand over and move away, but not to the people contesting against him,” he said.
“Because none of them will improve Nigeria. All those people contesting against him too were all in bed together at some point or another — including Peter Obi. At some point, he was in PDP.”
He stated that he is calling for a “new Nigeria”, statiing that he is the only politician who has never been a member of a ruling party.
“Tell me one politician who has never been in a ruling party. I’m the one. Have I ever been in a ruling party?” he said.
“I have never been in a ruling party. When I was in CPC, it was a little opposition party. I never had an APC membership card.”
