Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Labour Party’s vice-presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, has announced his departure from the party, saying he will join the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) with immediate effect.
Baba-Ahmed made the announcement on Tuesday during an appearance on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, blaming the party’s internal crises and what he described as a drift from its founding ideals.
“I am leaving the Labour Party at midnight, and I am joining PRP. PRP is the new destination. PRP is the one with a history. It’s about 75 years old,” he said.
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He also alleged that certain individuals had been redeployed within the party’s structure with the deliberate aim of making things difficult for him personally.
“What the Labour Party stood for then is no longer what it is today,” he added.
Baba-Ahmed’s exit comes as the Labour Party grapples with a deepening leadership crisis, with factions clashing openly over control and direction. Several key figures have expressed dissatisfaction with the party’s current trajectory in recent months.
Earlier on Tuesday, the party elected Nenadi Usman as its substantive national chairperson — a development that appears to have done little to arrest the internal turbulence.
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