Datti Baba-Ahmed, has asked Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta, to retract his statement which questioned the capacity of Peter Obi, LP presidential flagbearer, to lead Nigeria.
He added that of all the presidential aspirants presently presented by the political parties, none comes close to Peter Obi in qualification and experience.
Ahmed was reacting to Okowa’s earlier statement in which he said that Obi, despite being intellectually sound, does not possess enough experience to lead Nigeria.
Baba-Ahmed ,Vice-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), on Monday in a television interview.
He said Obi remained the most qualified among the candidates of the four leading candidates vying for the presidency.
He said: “That is absolutely untrue. In fact, I beg you to show me anyone who has had more leadership experience in the 2023 contest.
” By that contest, I mean the candidates that we have — the four leading candidates.
“I fail to see anyone who even comes close to his excellency, Peter Obi.
“The world is now at the stage where we need private sector experience and among all of them, no one has much private sector business sense, prudence, frugality, ability to manage persons, communities, interest groups. None of the other three has as much
“That comment is a very unfair, and I will like to think that very soon, the maker of that comment will have to retract because it shows that he has no idea about what capacity is.
“Apparently, we were in the Senate together. We used to sit not too far away.
” I have a lot of respect for him, but I least expect him to misread what capacity is.
“When you speak of capacity, you are talking of people like Peter Obi and with all modesty, my humble self.”
Baba-Ahmed raises alarm over fake accounts on social media
Meanwhile, Baba-Ahmed, has raised concern over the misuse of social media by his opponent with the intent to cause religious disaffection.
Baba-Ahmed, who addressed newsmen in Abuja, yesterday, said since his emergence as the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, political opponents had opened fake social media accounts to discredit him and his party.
He appealed to social media operators to understand the dangers that the misuse of social media poses to the peace and unity of the country.
