Peter Obi and Datti Baba‑Ahmed
The vice‑presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba‑Ahmed, said that if elected, Obi will address Nigeria’s fuel‑subsidy regime within the first 100 days and redirect the saved funds to critical sectors. Speaking on Channels Television’s election show *The 2023 Verdict* on Tuesday, Baba‑Ahmed explained, “In the first 100 days, once we sort out the subsidy scam and deploy Nigeria’s wasted funds into education and healthcare, you will begin to feel the impact.”
He added that an Obi presidency would lower the cost of governance and reinvest the savings in developmental projects: “You would see that the money Nigeria has is delivering more—infrastructure, security, public service, health, education, and everything. From day one, we are removing personal, political, and group interests from Nigerian financial affairs. That delivers more and multiplies what is delivered to Nigerians.”
Baba‑Ahmed also noted that the 1.9 million votes cast for President (retired) Major General Muhammadu Buhari in Kano State during the 2015 elections would not be replicated by any candidate in the upcoming polls. In 2015, Buhari of the All Progressives Congress defeated the Peoples Democratic Party’s Goodluck Jonathan with 1,903,999 votes to Jonathan’s 215,779 in Kano. “The northern Nigerian votes that were expected to make up the difference for the other runners‑up are not going to materialise,” he said. “The heavy punchers—Kano, for example—are now a watershed of what their votes used to be. In 2015, those 1.9 million Kano votes gave Buhari the final blow over Jonathan. Nobody will get that in Kano this time.”
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