2023: OBI unviel his VP
By Urube peter, Abuja
The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has revealed Senator Datti Baba Ahmed today, July 8, 2022 at the transcorp Hilton hotel, Abuja as his presidential running mate for the general election scheduled for February 25, 2023.
I am confidence by the popularity and acceptance that trail this choice, he is a credible running mate that will share in passion, mission and vision for a new Nigeria.
In the event of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s deadline drawing nearer, Obi and his party, in order to satisfy the yearnings of millions of Nigerians, decided to capitalise on the window of substitution to gain enough time and they got it right. It is now glaring that The Team for a New Nigeria that will effectively galvanise Nigeria’s Second Independence is loading…
Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed who stepped in to replace Dr. Doyin Okupe has the capacity, indeed the diligent search and consultations is the best.
The choice of Sen. Baba-Ahmed has elicited jubilation across the country, reminiscent of the reaction that greeted the declaration of Obi to join the Presidential race on April 6, three months ago. Both attestations are to the confidence of the public on the capacity and moral probity of Obi and Baba-Ahmed to manage the affairs of Nigeria.
Obi and LP couldn’t have expressed in more affirmative terms that the Nigerian youths form the fulcrum of their quest to turnaround the country from Consumption to Production economy.
At 50, Baba-Ahmed is appreciably representing the younger generation.
Worthy of note, the Kaduna-born scholar and politician is not only about young age. He is an astute Economist with a Bachelors and Masters degrees in Economics from the University of Maiduguri, Borno state. He also holds an MBA from University of Wales, Cardiff and a PhD from the University of Westminster.
The scion of the renowned Baba-Ahmed, an immigrant to Zaria from Mauritania in the early decades of the last century, is reputable for his very strong anti-corruption stand and passion for quality education. He is the founder of Baze University Abuja, and the Baba-Ahmed University Kano (awaiting licence).
With a rich past of descending from the famed Baba-Ahmed, the patriach of the dynasty, who was a reputable scholar on Islamic Jurisprudence and renowned teacher at Barewa College, Zaria, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed adds to the growing wide acceptance of Obi’s candidacy. The vice presidential candidate also brings to the race his wealth of experience that cuts across the corporate and public sectors.
He was a Federal House of Representatives’ member for the Zaria Federal Constituency (2003-2007) and the Senator Representing Kaduna North Senatorial District (2011-2012) both under the Platform of the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP.
Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed is the younger brother of consummate Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the Director of Publicity of the Northern Elders Forum. As a corporate sector guru, Sen. Datti Baba-Ahmed was a banker with the First Bank of Nigeria, worked in the Security Printing and Minting, Lagos before he founded the Baze Research and Data Services Ltd where he held sway as the MD before his venture into politics in 2003.
When the man fondly called Okwute and the Labour Party promised to turnaround Nigeria for the better, they were not exaggerating.
In his acceptance speech: senator Datti,
“why i accepted to team up with the former Governor of Anambra State.’
Speaking when he was formally unveiled in Abuja on Friday, Baba-Ahmed said he accepted to be Obi’s running mate because he believes in OBi’s capacity to make Nigeria live up to its billing.
He added he also trusts that Obi would not mismanage the nation’s wealth, adding that the Labour Party’s outing as Anambra governor lends credence to that.”
