The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Datti Baba-Ahmed, has told the presidential candidates of All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to underestimate the supporters of his party’s candidate, Mr Peter Obi, at their own peril.
According to him, it is okay for the “owners of structures” and “master politicians” to underestimate the Labour Party and the ‘Obidient’ movement.
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Baba-Ahmed made this known during Channels Television’s Political Paradigm programme on Tuesday.
He said “I want to be fully underestimated. I want Peter Obi to be fully underestimated by the so-called master politicians, the owners of resources, the owners and masters of structures. We are nothing; he is just a businessman (and) I am just an educationist.”
The Kaduna-born politician and Obi’s running mate said those saying Labour Party can’t win 25% of votes in 24 states in the 2023 presidential election don’t know what they are saying.
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“They don’t know what they are saying,” he said when responding to critics and contenders who claim Labour Party can’t get 25% of votes in 24 states across the Federation.
According to the 1999 Constitution, a presidential candidate can only be announced as the winner if he or she “has the majority of votes cast at the election; and has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.”
Obi and Datti are in the race with established contenders including Bola Tinubu, and Kashim Shettima of the APC as well as Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa of the PDP.