{"id":1145495,"date":"2022-07-08T15:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/08\/peter-obi-picks-datti-baba-ahmed-as-running-mate\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T15:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:54:24","slug":"peter-obi-picks-datti-baba-ahmed-as-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/08\/peter-obi-picks-datti-baba-ahmed-as-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi Picks Datti Baba-Ahmed As Running Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter Obi, Datti Baba-Ahmed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), has named Datti Baba-Ahmed, founder of Baze University, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Obi unveiled his running mate at an event in Abuja on Friday.<\/p>\n

The development comes less than 24 hours after Doyin Okupe, former senior special assistant on public affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, announced his withdrawal as the party\u2019s vice-presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

The party had in June named Okupe as its \u201cplaceholder\u201d vice-presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

Also Read: 2023: Okupe Withdraws As Labour Party Vice Presidential Candidate<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking at the unveiling, Obi stated that Baba-Ahmed is \u201ceminently qualified\u201d to be Nigeria\u2019s vice-president if the party wins the presidential election next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our match to secure, unite and make Nigeria productive and you can\u2019t do it without having people who have a similar vision, idea and are prepared for that onerous task,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In his remarks, Baba-Ahmed said he is \u201chumbled and appreciative\u201d of his selection as the party\u2019s vice-presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

According to him, the \u201cfundamental reason\u201d for being on \u201cthis ticket is to rescue Nigeria\u201d from the state of collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot afford not to be part of the movement to rescue Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Obi, Datti Baba-Ahmed Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), has named Datti Baba-Ahmed, founder of Baze University, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election. Obi unveiled his running mate at an event in Abuja on Friday. The development comes less than 24 hours after Doyin Okupe, former senior special assistant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1145497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}