Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed has said he accepted Peter Obi’s vice-presidential ticket for the 2023 election out of sympathy, not ideology, after three senior Nigerian politicians turned Obi down.
Baba-Ahmed made the disclosure during an interview with media outlet Symfoni, in a video that circulated on Wednesday. He said Obi had approached at least three prominent political figures in 2021 and 2022 to serve as his running mate on the Labour Party platform. All three declined.
“When he approached three other major politicians in 2021, they avoided him,” Baba-Ahmed said. “I would have been glad if, in 2022, one of them went with Peter Obi. But they all avoided him. I felt bad for him. I felt bad for Nigeria as a nation.”
