Councillors Threaten To Sue Datti Baba-Ahmed Over ‘Treasonable Comment’

Several sitting councilors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress recently threatened Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the running mate of the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, with legal action.

The local council parliamentarians also gave the LP vice presidential candidate a 48-hour deadline to remove his national broadcast declaration that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, and his vice should not be sworn in on May 29.

According to the Daily Trust on Saturday, Baba-Ahmed recently petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria not to swear in the President-elect on May 29, while some of their supporters have called for an interim national administration.

Addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, the national chairman of the National Progressive Councillors Forum (NPCF), Muslihu Yusuf Ali, described Obi and his running mate as “enemies of unity, peace, and democracy”.

Ali said, “We would like to use this medium to strongly condemn a provocative statement made by the Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Sen. Datti Baba-Ahmed on Channels TV last week, attacking the integrity of the 25th February 2023 presidential election.

“Therefore, we call on him to quickly withdraw his comments within 48 hours and apologize to the good people of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, President Buhari, and the judiciary under the leadership of Chief Judge of Nigeria, else, legal action will be taken against him,” he said.