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IF YOU BRING OUT ATIKU, APC KNOWS HOW TO WORK AGAINST HIM – DATTI BABA-AHMED
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The 2023 vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has warned the African Democratic Congress (ADC) against presenting former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2027 election.
The 55-year-old politician, during an interview with Trust TV, said President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress understand how to defeat Atiku.
He argued that the ADC should not have a default leader, as the APC did when the former President, Muhammadu Buhari, emerged as the party’s presidential candidate in 2015.
He said, “If you bring out Atiku, they know how to work against Atiku, and he is welcome to win, if he wins we will support him. You need that candidate they can’t understand, they don’t know where to catch, that is how to win an election.”
Speaking further, Baba-Ahmed asserted that the coalition consisting of political bigwigs, including former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former presidential candidate Peter Obi, former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi, former Senate President David Mark, and numerous other former governors, is full of people with presidential ambitions.
According to him, the ADC does not have a politician in the mould of Bola Tinubu, who suppressed his ambition to platform the likes of Atiku in 2007 or former President Muhammadu Buhari, who joined the APC-backed coalition with 12 million followers to defeat former President Goodluck in 2015.
Baba-Ahmed clarified that his submissions are not a criticism of the coalition, but insisted that he has not seen a clear strategy from the coalition leaders that could defeat Tinubu.
He said, “The coalition is full of options, the coalition is full of resources, but the downside is that the coalition is also too full of ambitions. Ambitions have to be reduced, they have to be managed carefully.
“If you do business as usual against a seating government like Tinubu, you won’t win. You need to do what we call think outside the box. To achieve an impossible feat you truly need an impossible strategy.”
