According to him, Tinubu’s administration had not taken any bold steps except to “shut down IReV” and to “use misapplied force on the weak Nigerian institutions that we have.”
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 Presidential Election, has said that the President Bola Tinubu-led administration has delivered only disaster to Nigeria and Nigerians.
Datti said this during an interview with Arise Primetime, where he noted that when Nigerians “wake up” and decide that they want to take control of their country, anything can happen.
It was earlier reported that Obi during his World Press Conference on Monday in reaction to the Supreme Court judgment said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) displayed incompetence in the conduct of the 2023 elections but the apex court willfully condoned the electoral body’s incompetence and violation of the law.
The former Governor of Anambra State had also said the Supreme Court judgment amounted to a breach of confidence Nigerians have in judiciary and that “it is a show of unreasonable force against the Nigerian people from whom the power of the constitution derives.”
Meanwhile, during the Arise TV interview, Datti, who spoke on President Tinubu’s past six months in power, said, “This man has delivered nothing, and he is poised to deliver nothing. They have not moved an inch Nigeria from consumption and waste to production, and they will not do it.
“They will not stop the killings and start the healing. They will not stop the stealing and start the keeping, and they will not stop the slide of Nigeria, and they cannot start the climb.”
According to him, Tinubu’s administration had not taken any bold steps except to “shut down IReV” and to “use misapplied force on the weak Nigerian institutions that we have.”
He further said that “For someone that has been playing ‘God’ for such a long time like Alhaji Tinubu and it is time for a mortal like maybe Obi or someone else to put him in his right place, for someone who has wielded so much power in a country like Nigeria, where is that power in the last six months to apply in our welfare and in our security? They cannot do it.
“They are in power for themselves. For their ego, for their wealth, for their comfort, for their own considerations, not for Nigeria.”
But when Datti asked about Nigeria’s Fitch rating, he said the Fitch Statistics were misleading, and that “If you want to know what is happening in Nigeria, come to us in Nigeria and don’t read those statistics because they are misleading.
“They always speak about growth. It’s not growth actually that matters, those figures that give you, because there is nothing as misleading as far as welfare is concerned as growth. The stethoscope you use in measuring the heartbeat of an elephant, for example, China, cannot be the same one you use to measure the heartbeat of a rat.”
He reiterated that the Labour Party completely rejects and does not stand with the judgment of the supreme court, and that the judgment stands largely because “we can’t do anything about it,” stressing that “whoever thinks that the Supreme Court will give democracy from any courtroom, the way it appears now, is mistaken.”
Datti added that “The petition court and the Supreme Court did not actually affirm the success of Tinubu’s presidency, they upheld the unconstitutionality of that election, and they are happy for it to remain so. And they have the power; nobody can do anything about it.
“That is why we said it is an unreasonable show of force. If there was something we could do, we would stop it, but we are law-abiding citizens, that is why I’m here sitting with you today and still complaining.
“I was not shaken one bit. I will never be shaken by certificate forgery, by forfeited money over narcotics, I will never be shaken by IReV switched off in the middle of the game when they saw us winning. The Labour Party won the 2023 Presidential elections. No doubt about it. They are cheats, they are bullies and they have taken full advantage of the situation in Nigeria.”
He noted that the state of democracy in Nigeria is poor and that the people have to wake up, pointing out that “For a people that are ready to accept anything, then anything will happen to them.”
“For Peter Obi and me, it is over. For us the people, the Nigerian people, at any point in time, they can take back Nigeria,” he said.
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