The 2023 vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has asked former vice president Atiku Abubakar to stop contesting for president, saying Atiku had already started contesting to become Nigeria’s President while he served as a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
He called on the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate to allow the younger generation to take over the political space and seek ideas to solve the country’s problems.
Baba-Ahmed said that the likes of Atiku, with their expensive style of politics, are discouraging younger politicians with better ideas.
Speaking in an interview in Abuja, Baba-Ahmed said, “When I was doing my NYSC, Baba Atiku was an aspirant and in 2018, we contested primaries together. In 2023 we contested again, I was a vice president elsewhere when his vice president had left him. For God’s sake in 2027 again?
“There is the need for a new generation of Nigerian leaders and they do exist. As I said, a whole new generation is waiting for a new leader to lead them to a new party. There are good Nigerians.