Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed


Labour Party, LP, will on Friday, unveil Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, as the running mate to Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the party, in the 2023 elections.
 

Sen. Baba-Ahmed, who is in his 40s is the Proprietor of Baze University, in Abuja, and Baba-Ahmed University, Kano.


The unveiling of the vice presidential candidate was initially slated for Thursday (today), at the party’s National Secretariat, in Abuja.


The party’s presidential flagbearer, Mr. Peter Obi, was supposed to anchor the event.


However, National Chairman of the party, Barr. Julius Abure, said that the ceremony could not go ahead as planned because Obi, who had traveled to Maiduguri and expected back in Abuja Thursday afternoon, had his flight canceled.


Abure, announced that the unveiling of the presidential candidate’s running mate was rescheduled for Friday, July 8, at the party’s headquarters, in Abuja.

credit: POLITICS DIGEST