‘Datti Baba-Ahmed Is Like An Aggrieved Jilted Lover’

Former presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu, has slammed the Labour Party (LP) 2023 vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, for criticising members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Naija News reports that Baba-Ahmed, while declaring his intention to contest the 2027 presidential election on Wednesday, described members of the ADC coalition as disgruntled politicians.

He also labelled some former LP members who defected to the ADC as political travellers.

However, Momodu, while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday, likened Baba-Ahmed to an aggrieved jilted lover.

The ADC chieftain expressed surprise at Baba-Ahmed’s attacks on other politicians, stressing that politics should not be driven by personal grievance or emotional reactions.

Momodu added that elections are “a game of mathematics”, urging politicians to work with those who had built structures and platforms capable of delivering results at the polls.

He said, “He has a right to say anything. I am very, very surprised about how he talks down on other politicians.

“He is free to contest, but he knows that today the Labour Party is not what it was in the last election.

“And the reason he is aggrieved is that he goes and pursues his own dreams and knows that, in that coalition, it is not likely.

“I’m not bothered at all. He is an aggrieved person; he’s like a jilted lover. He ran with Peter Obi the last time; he would expect to run again, but they should not turn themselves into serial contestants.

“Only serial contestants would not think about the larger picture. The larger picture right now is that, ever before, there was Datti, and there was Atiku Abubakar, a visionary man, who saw Peter Obi as a star of Nigerian politics and picked him in 2019 against the wishes of some governors.”