Sonaiya urges support for Peter Obi after the Labour Party unveiled Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed as his running mate
The 2015 presidential candidate of the KOWA party, Remi Sonaiya, has appealed to Nigerians to be Obidient, a funky way of telling them to support the presidential aspiration of Peter Obi.
Sonaiya, on her verified Twitter handle made the appeal after the unveiling of Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed as Obi’s running mate,
She said: “We’re going thru a very important moment of transition which, God willing, will lead to a seismic shift in our political culture. Things won’t be perfect. We’re taking the FIRST IMPORTANT STEPS. Let’s be mindful of that. And be obidient (oops!🤭) to the dictates of the moment.”
In a reply to a comment under her tweet, she added that she would be active in the campaign for Obi and Yusuf.
Recall that the Labour Party on Friday unveiled Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed as Peter Obi’s running mate for the 2023 elections.
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is a Nigerian economist and the founder of Baze University, a private tertiary institution located at Jabi in Abuja which he founded in 2011.
He was born to the Baba-Ahmed family in Zaria in the 1970s. He is among the thirty-three children of his father, Baba Ahmed, an Arab cattle-trader from modern-day Mauritania who later became a notable professor and expert on Islamic jurisprudence.
He was a member of the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007 and was elected Senator for Kaduna North, in Kaduna State, Nigeria in April 2011 on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
Baba-Ahmed has four degrees; a BSc and MSc in Economics from the University of Maiduguri, an MBA from the University of Wales, Cardiff and in 2006, he successfully completed his PhD studies, earning the title of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Westminster.
After his service year at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun state, he worked as Projects Coordinator, Baze Research and Data Services Ltd. and as Officer II in the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, Lagos.