Datti Baba-Ahmed, vice-presidential candidate of the Labour
Party (LP), has asked Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta, to retract his
statement which questioned the capacity of Peter Obi, LP presidential
flagbearer, to lead Nigeria.
Baba-Ahmed spoke on Monday in an interview with Channels
Television.
Okowa, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), in an interview with BBC pidgin, had said Obi does not have the
needed experience to lead Nigeria.
“His (Obi) previous experience is not enough for this one
(presidency). It will be hard. His experience is not deep enough,” the Delta
governor had said.
Reacting to Okowa’s comment, Baba-Ahmed said Obi is the most
qualified among the candidates of the four leading candidates vying for the
presidency.
“That is absolutely untrue. In fact, I beg you to show me
anyone who has had more leadership experience in the 2023 contest. By that
contest, I mean the candidates that we have — the four leading candidates,” he
said.
“I fail to see anyone who even comes close to his
excellency, Peter Obi. The world is now at the stage where we need private
sector experience and among all of them, no one has much private sector
business sense, prudence, frugality, ability to manage persons, communities,
interest groups. None of the other three has as much.
“That comment is a
very unfair comment, and I will like to think that very soon, the maker of that
comment will have to retract because it shows that he has no idea about what
capacity is.
“Apparently, we were in the senate together. We used to sit
not too far away. I have a lot of respect for him, but I least expect him to
misread what capacity is. When you speak of capacity, you are talking of people
like Peter Obi and with all modesty, my humble self.”
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