The National Secretary of the Labour Party, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, has stated that the party’s former vice-presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, is eligible to contest for the presidency.
According to Ibrahim, Baba-Ahmed is just as qualified as the party’s previous presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Datti made this comment during an interview with Trust TV, where he also voiced his dissatisfaction with Obi’s affiliation with the opposition coalition-backed African Democratic Congress (ADC).
He said: “Datti is qualified to contest for the presidency as good as Peter Obi. So, the seat of that candidacy is not reserved for anybody. It is open for a competitive contest.
“If Datti is willing to aspire for presidency and he wants to do that under the Labour Party, we will open it. Come and buy the form, mobilise his support and then get elected.
“But the only thing is that if those people didn’t come back to us, they lose that opportunity because there’s no way you’ll continue to romance with other political party and then you still come back and your one leg is in the Labour Party. No, ab initio, you may be disqualified.”
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