Labour Party LP looking at young running mate, may pick senator Baba Ahmed as Obi running mate - Doctor Doyin Okupe
LP/NNPP Merger failure, Labour Party LP looking at young running mate, may pick senator Baba Ahmed as Obi running mate - Doctor Doyin Okupe
Dr Doyin Okupe, while speaking on Channel Television Politics Today programme, yesterday, Okupe said the merger failed because kwankwaso of the NNPP insisted on being the presidential flag bearer, even when a Northern Muslim of the same North-West geo-political zone, President Muhammadu Buhari is about to complete eight years in office.
He said during coalition talks he had asked the NNPP leadership if it was fair to field in Kwankwaso, a northerner, of which the NNPP leadership said there was nothing wrong with that.
Okupe also reviewed that LP is now looking at a young running mate of northern extraction
Newslinkngr.com gathered that Senator Datti Baba Ahmed,46, from Kaduna State may be picked as Obi's running mate.
Senator Ahmed, who has four degrees including a PHD was a member of the House of Representatives(2003 and 2007),and was elected senator Kaduna North in 2011 on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. He is the founder and pro-Chancellor of Base University.