The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has predicted that 2023 elections will not be decided by money.
As a result, he said, those who have stolen money from government’s coffers, hoping to use it to manipulate the process, will be disappointed.
According to him, all the people mobilising on social media towards the poll, will actually go out to vote.
In his words, social media is going to vote this time.
Baba-Ahmed said this while speaking on a Channels Television programme.
He said, “Go and start looking at the bookings of major European airlines into Nigeria, not just during Christmas time; funny enough, this time after Christmas time; late January to the third week of February, you will see that they are getting full.
“I am into the business of data and statistics and I decided to particularly look at that. This tells you that social media is going to vote. Social media, even if they’re in Canada, even if they’re in Antarctica; one person is there and he mobilises 100,000 people to go out and vote, it has succeeded. But we are not scared.
“The bank balance of any big politician is starting to be irrelevant. Those of us who sweated for the little that we have, we’re spending it very wisely and very carefully. Those of them who made it from government, who just open the coffers and bring it out, they’ll continue to splash it and it will continue to mean less and less till the election hour.”
