It is time for Nigerians to reclaim their nation, according to Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, vice presidential candidate for the Labour Party.
During a town hall meeting on Monday, with important stakeholders, including state party leadership, the Coalition of Obi-Datti Support Groups, and candidates for the various elective positions ahead of the general election next year in Minna, the capital of the Niger State, Senator Datti made the announcement.
Datti encouraged Nigerians to disregard politicians that incite animosity among the public via the use of religion and tribalism.
He claimed that after 24 years of combined control by the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, only insecurity, corruption, and other difficulties remained.
“Fellow victims of insecurity, corruption; we, Nigerians, are the ones who have been cheated and we did not cheat, these politicians in other parties are the ones who have cheated us. The end of these terrible issues have come.
“If the APC and the PDP are better after 24 years of combined governance, why are we still witnessing the challenges we are facing? Nigerians, it’s time to take back our country,” he said.
The senator encouraged Nigerians to vote for credibility, competence, character, equality, fairness, and justice in order to prevent the country from falling apart in the presidential election of 2023.
“When politicians who have nothing to cover up their lies and lack of ideas to resolve the problems Nigeria is facing, they will look for anything to create confusion, religion and tribal comes handy hence Nigerians should not fall for their antics”.
Senator Datti urged the electorates to disregard the claims made by presidential aspirants of various political parties that they had “structures” to further their 2023 cause while he was in Niger State as part of a tour to review the 18 Northern States.
He claims that Nigerians will elect the successor to President Muhammadu Buhari the following year because they are the structure.
He reminded the crowd that an unified Nigeria with equal stakes for all citizens is preferable than one that is divided.
Plans to get people out to support the presidential campaigns were conceived at an earlier gathering of the Coalition of Support Groups for Obi-Datti in Niger State.
In order to ensure that Peter Obi becomes president by 2023, according to Habila Diko, coordinator of the Coalition of Support Groups for Obi-Datti in the state, there is a need to increase public awareness.