The former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has accused social media users of misrepresenting what transpired during Wednesday’s rally of the Labour Party at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
Baba-Ahmed had been quoted widely including by mainstream media to have declared his ambition to run for the presidency in 2027.
“I have made myself to contest for the office in 2027. I’m not following anybody’s trajectory or stepping into anybody’s shoes,” he reportedly said in a veiled reference to the party’s Presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi who the previous day decamped to African Democratic Congress, ADC.
Speaking on Channels Television on Friday, the former federal lawmaker said the inference from his statement that he declared to run for the presidency at the occasion was wrong saying, “I never declared to contest the presidency two days ago.”
Explaining further, “Two days ago, what I did was simply say that I remain in the Labour Party. I never declared to contest the presidency, even though there could be a possibility of that happening. I certainly did not declare for the presidency. I reiterated my membership of the Labour Party, and that is all.”
He went on to accuse social media users of being behind the alleged misinterpretation saying, “It is unfortunate that social media can be so sensational, putting out wrong narratives to emotional listeners. I believe formal media like yours should serve as filters and barriers so that the general public can always consume the correct information.”
