‘We are not scared’ – Datti Baba-Ahmed, Peter Obi’s running mate boasts

Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice presidential candidate of the Labour party in the 2023 elections, has said social media should not be ignored in the build up to the 2023 general elections.

He expressed this belief while responding to questions on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.

“Go and start looking at the bookings of major European airlines into Nigeria,” Baba-Ahmed said.

“Not during Christmas time. After Christmas time. Late January to the third week of February. You will see that they are getting full. Unusually. I’m into the business of data and statistics. And I decided to particularly look at that. This tells you that social media is going to vote. Even if they are in Antarctica, one person is there and he mobilises 100,000 people here to go out and vote. It has succeeded.

“We are not scared. The bank balance of any big politician is starting to be irrelevant. Those of us who sweated for the little that we have, we are spending it very wisely and carefully. Those of them who made it from the government, who will just open the coffers and bring it out; they will continue to splash it and it will continue to mean less and less.”