The 2023 Labour Party (LP) vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has asserted that some old politicians, with their expensive style of politics and a treacherous system full of godfathers and bad promises, are discouraging younger politicians with better ideas.
Naijaonpoint reports that Baba-Ahmed, speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Friday, urged Atiku to shelve his 2027 presidential ambition.
According to him, Atiku Abubakar had already started contesting to become Nigeria’s President while he (Datti) served as a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
He called on the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to allow the younger generation to take over the political space and seek ideas to solve the country’s problems.
He 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 as 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. The there are good Nigerians.
“There are people capable of solving Nigerian problems, but they are discouraged by the expensive, difficult, treacherous system full of godfathers and bad promises to make. But there are good Nigerians who are looking for that leader to need them to fix Nigeria, Nigeria’s problems.”