Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed
The vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said Obi will tackle Nigeria’s fuel subsidy regime in the first 100 days if elected and redeploy the funds to key areas.
Baba-Ahmed’s said this when he appeared on Channels Television’s election show The 2023 Verdict on Tuesday.
“In the first 100 days, by the time we sort out the problem of the subsidy scam, and we are able to deploy Nigeria’s wasted funds into education and healthcare, you would begin to feel it (the impact),” he said.
Obi’s running mate also promised that the Obi presidency would reduce the cost of governance and plow the money back into developmental projects.
“You would see that the money that Nigeria has is delivering more – infrastructure, security, public service, health, education, and everything,” he added.
“From day one, we are announcing that we are removing personal, political, and group interests from Nigerian financial affairs. That delivers more. That more than multiplies what is delivered to Nigerians.”
Baba-Ahmed also said the over 1.9 million votes gotten by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in Kano State during the 2015 elections would not be won by any candidate in the forthcoming elections.
In 2015, Buhari of the All Progressives Congress defeated the Peoples Democratic Party’s Goodluck Jonathan with 1,903,999 votes, while the latter had 215,779 votes in Kano.
He said, “The northern Nigerian votes that were waiting to make up the difference which either of the two other runners-up were hoping to get, [it] turned out that they are not getting it.
“The heavy punchers – Kano, for example – is now a watershed of what its votes used to be. In 2015, the 1.9 million votes of Kano, nobody can aspire to have that which of course Buhari punched Jonathan with the final blow. Nobody is going to get that in Kano.”
