Dr. Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, Peter Obi's running mate for the Labour Party's presidential nomination, has encouraged party members to stay away from ethnic and religious issues.
While speaking to party members in Bauchi, Baba-Ahmed made the call, advising them to concentrate on respectable candidates free of religious and ethical prejudices.
Prior to the general elections in 2023, he asked the party members to abstain from religion politics and refrain from ethnic incitement.
According to him, ” I am in Bauchi to encourage you, people, not to relent on the efforts you are putting in for the labour party in the country.
“Don't be confused with religious and ethnicity issues; politics is not about religion; if it is religion, then we should allow the clerics to rule.
“God has already made us groups and different tribes across the world, so politics is neither religion nor ethnicity”.
Baba-Ahmed said that if Nigerians shunned religious and ethnic politics, it would not only promote peace but lead to the emergence of competent leaders in the country.
The running mate to Obi urged party members to work the extra mile in educating people on the blueprint of the Labour Party and ‘ObiDatti mandate’.
Also, Hussaini Saraki, Chairman of, the Labour Party Bauchi State, assured of continued mobilisation of members and the public on the credentials of the presidential candidate and his running mate.
He said the Labour Party was doing well in spite of the opposition party, saying that the presence of Datti would encourage and boost their morale.
On his part, Abel Musa, Chairman of OBIDATTI Coalition’, said the coalition was going on with contact and mobilisation of voters for the party and its candidates.