Former Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nigerians can only have true leaders when they are genuinely elected.
Datti Baba-Ahmed made the statement on Tuesday while responding to questions in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a political programme on Channels Television.
When asked how to stop the continued orgy of killings in Nigeria, he said, “only when you have the right leaders; you can only have the right leaders when you have them truly elected.
“So long as people steal elections, you will never have security. Most drastic is that when that group of people use the tools of insecurity that we have seen in 2015, and it worked, and they achieved what they wanted.
“And again they use, for example, the tools of religion, ethnicity, division within political parties and heavy use of money.”
He contended that the Nigerian electorate should change their approach to elections and reject politicians who offer them money for votes, stressing that if they collect such money, they have sold their rights and they eventually become slaves to the political jobbers.
