Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Labour Party’s (LP) vice presidential candidate in the 2023 election, claims he agreed to run with Peter Obi out of sympathy.

During an interview with Symfoni, Baba-Ahmed made this statement.

He claims that before the 2023 election, Obi had contacted three well-known politicians, but none of them accepted to run alongside him.

He claimed that his choice to run with Obi was motivated by his compassion for the former governor of Anambra as well as the political climate of the nation at the time.

“People don’t understand that between me and Obi, there is a great deal of sympathy. I have sympathy for him. And this sympathy was at the core of our relationship. When he approached three other major politicians in 2022, I would have been glad if one of them had gone with Peter Obi in 2022. But they all avoided him. I felt bad for him and I felt bad for Nigeria as a nation.”

According to Baba-Ahmed, he willingly intervened because he thought it was best for the nation.

“I took it upon myself because naturally I have always been a volunteer. For the sake of Nigeria, I extended that sympathy to him” he said.