Vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Datti Baba-Ahmed is of the opinion that his party’s message is giving hope to many and is already uniting Nigerians.
Baba-Ahmed was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, August 23.
He said LP’s communications and the interactions between its presidential candidate and the general public is beginning to ease tensions across the country.
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The LP’s Vice Presidential Candidate asserted;
You can see that certain groups feel that there is effort feel including from other groups, to make theirs come to power, you can see that tension is actually coming.
There is a lot of hope for better life, for better security… and the single most important factor uniting Nigeria is the candidacy of Peter Obi.
Baba-Ahmed also defended his pedigree and that of Peter Obi to win the election and govern the country well.
He noted;
Labour Party candidates, assume I am not the one speaking, are driven by their records. They are stepping on what they have succeeded in to attempt to lead Nigeria,
Other candidates, I don’t have to mention (their names) are swimming in the ocean of wealth and power and so they want to rule Nigeria.
The Labour Party VP candidate also spoke about the state of Nigeria’s Democracy, more than two decades after the return to civil rule.
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He said;
It is very sad that what you keep hearing (about) endlessly are the three arms of government in a democratic government.
Rather than focus on just how the arms of government function, he explained that for Nigeria to be a proper democracy, three philosophical conditions must be present.
Elaborating, he said;
One, democracy must not be about individuals or small groups or any group for that matter. It must be about a political entity for it to qualify as democratic. It (should be) about national and bigger interests.
Two, the aspirations and the desires and the will of the people must reflect in their elections…, which means we are yet to meet the second philosophical condition of democracy.
The third one is that, as provided in the Constitution, the people must hold power, on whose behalf the elected government exercises authority. What you have now is that government once elected or they impose themselves, they hold the power and exercise the authority.
So, condition two is not there and condition three is questionable.
