The Labour Party’s (LP) vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, claims that the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, do not have enough days to spend the money they have “kept.”
Baba-Ahmed made this statement during Channels Television’s Sunday Politics which was monitored by The Herald.
Atiku, 76, and Tinubu, 70, are the dominant parties’ leading presidential candidates for the 2023 general elections.
According to Peter Obi’s running mate, Baba-Ahmed, the APC and the PDP only have structures to distribute money and not to effect good governance to improve citizens’ lives.
“There is no such thing as structures; it is the conflagration of people interested in collecting the money they have kept.
“That money must be collected by somebody; you can’t leave them to get away with that money.
“Tinubu does not have enough days in his life to finish spending that money. Atiku does not have enough days in his life to spend all that money.
So, they need to spend it on the 2023 elections. And people, if you have money to spend, they will collect it,” Baba-Ahmed said.
He insisted that the LP is “well-resourced,” but that it will not spend money for which it cannot account.
He emphasized that the two dominant parties have so-called “structures” without governance and have collectively “misruled” Nigeria since 1999, when the country returned to democracy, signaling the start of the Fourth Republic.
“Only one party has a genuine structure, and that is the Labour Party,” Baba-Ahmed said.
Before the APC administration of President Muhammadu Buhari took over in 2015, the PDP produced three Presidents (Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’adua, and Goodluck Jonathan) in the 16 years since 1999.
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