The Labour Party’s vice presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Datti Baba-Ahmed, on Wednesday declared his intention to challenge President Bola Tinubu’ in the 2027 general election.
Baba-Ahmed made the declaration at a rally held at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
The event was attended by LP National Chairman, Julius Abure and other key members of the party.
The ex-lawmaker announced his intention just a week after the LP presidential candidate in the last election, Peter Obi, dumped the party for the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
At the rally, Baba-Ahmed said his aspiration predates the 2023 election.
He stressed that the decision to vie for the country’s highest political office was not reactionary or dependent on Obi’s political move.
He said: “I have made myself to contest for the office in 2027. I’m not following anybody’s trajectory or stepping into anybody’s shoes.
“Can I please remind you that before His Excellency Governor Peter Obi filed for the presidency, I aspired for the presidency before him? The records are there for you to see.
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“In October 2018, I participated in the primaries of the then PDP in Port Harcourt and walked to Obi for his vote, and he smiled at me. What a gentleman he was.
“If you heard me well in what I just submitted, I saw a rare opportunity for national unity to have elected Peter Obi in 2023. And that is why I decided to flow with it.”
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