The 2023 vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed, has stated that he has no interest in joining issues with the Minister of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy of Nigeria, Hannatu Musawa.

He said this while reacting to earlier claims made by the Minister that he made dangerous insinuations based on lies.

Recall that Musawa had berated Baba-Ahmed for stating that President Bola Tinubu should not have allowed Vice President Kashim Shettima to remain in office.

Speaking during an appearance on Arise News, Baba-Ahmed said his mission is to remove Tinubu from office.

He said, “Don’t expect me to join issues with this woman. I will not. I have been on a mission to take away her boss’s job. And I will not allow her to distract me.”

Baba-Ahmed also stood by his controversial remark, questioning the timing of President Bola Tinubu’s election declaration, which he previously called suspicious.

“I am holding my head high. And I’m repeating here again… that evils do happen in societies like Nigeria. And Nigerian politics has not been shielded from that.”

On FCT Minister Nyesom Wike’s reported ties to Labour Party chairman Julius Abure, Baba Ahmed said, “Whoever captured so easily a country like Nigeria in the way they did… there is nothing else they won’t attempt to do. Between 2023 and 2027, it’s like destroy all the parties.

He added pointedly, “Uncontainable is welcome to continue to spend Nigerian resources in destroying Nigerian political parties, using the kind of Wikis… But like Nigerians say, one day the monkey goes to the market and he doesn’t come back.”