Labour Party Gaining “Unbelievable”, “Phenomenal” Support In The North- Datti Baba-Ahmed

The vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba Ahmed has claimed that his party is enjoying “unbelievable”, “phenomenal” support in the Northern part of the country.

In a television interview on Tuesday, Baba-Ahmed added that no candidate will replicate the votes polled by President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 elections in Kano state.

Baba-Ahmed argued that the presidential campaign of LP has moved beyond social media and currently gaining momentum in the northern region.

“We have women rising to the challenge now more than we thought. We have the youths uniting particularly in the north,” he said.

“I’m talking about Sokoto, Kano, Bauchi, and Niger. The women in Niger were just too good for us. All over the north.

“Gombe was phenomenal. Adamawa was far beyond our expectations. We went to southern Adamawa, southern Gombe, and southern Borno. The energy in the youths in southern Borno is very unbelievable.

“The northern Nigerian votes that were waiting to make up the difference which either of the two other runners-up (referring to APC and PDP) were hoping to get, turned out that they are not getting it.

“The heavy punchers – Kano, for example – is now a watershed of what its votes used to be. In 2015, with the 1.9 million votes of Kano, nobody can aspire to have that which of course Buhari punched Jonathan with the final blow.

“Nobody is going to get that in Kano. We have pulled a lot of weight beyond the comprehension of the two runners-up.”