Baba-Ahmed, Obi’s running mate, asserts that in 2023, support on social media will transfer into actual votes.

Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, a vice presidential candidate for the Labour Party, said on Friday that social media support would result in genuine votes in the 2023 presidential election.

He said this in the Politics Today episode of Channels Television.

There were worries that Peter Obi, the LP presidential candidate, would not receive a significant number of votes in the election held the following year.

However, Baba-Ahmed refuted this assertion and claimed that money will not have an impact on the election’s results.

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. This is because those of us who sweated for the little that we have, we’re spending it very wisely and very carefully.

“Those who made it from the 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.”