OpenLife Nigeria reports as the 2023 presidential election gets close, an intimate secret of Dr. Datti Ahmed Yusuf, the running mate of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party has been revealed by a Nigerian diplomat, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi.
The former Minister of External Affairs during the regime of President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida spoke on the side line Thursday at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos.
Akinyemi was at the Institute as a guest speaker at the NIIA Distinguished Lecture Series 2022.
During a conversation, Professor Akinyemi revealed that Datti Ahmed is of Mauritania descent who seems privileged to be aspiring to the 2nd highest office in the land.
Born on July 7, July 1969 in Zaria, Kaduna State,
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is a Nigerian economist and politician who served as Senator for Kaduna North from 2011 to 2012 and member of the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007.
The founder of Baze University, Abuja is currently a member of the Labour Party where he is the party’s vice presidential nominee in the 2023 presidential election.