2027: Datti Baba-Ahmed declares support for southern presidency

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The power of the 2027 elections should stay in the south, according to Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Labour Party’s former vice presidential candidate in the 2023 elections.

In an interview with Channels’ Television’s Morning Brief on Wednesday, Baba-Ahmed reflected on his political career, citing times when he decided to withdraw from significant elections in order to promote national unity.

“I welcome the idea of power remaining in the South. That’s why, if you recall, I was inspired to run for the presidency in 2019, and in 2023, I served under His Excellency, Peter Obi as vice-presidential candidate.

“Before that, I attempted a governorship bid in Kaduna but chose to withdraw,” he said.

“I very much respect and reciprocate what I saw in Port Harcourt in 2018 there wasn’t a single candidate that could genuinely lay claim to the legacy of the Rivers, Niger and Benue. In 2023, the whole world witnessed that I did not contest a show of respect,” he said.

He continued by commending Nyesom Wike and Peter Obi for exercising restraint in spite of their political capital.

“Peter Obi, Wike they had the resources, the experience, and the people to contest, yet they restricted themselves. That discipline and self-restraint deserve recognition.”

“That is part of why, probably, our good friend and boss Wike is doing what he claims not to be doing in the PDP,” he stated.

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