2023: Datti-Baba Ahmed Speaks On Labour Party Benefitting From #EndSARS Protest

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Senator Yusuf Datti-Baba Ahmed has denied any suggestion that the party is a beneficiary of the #EndSARS protest.

Speaking on Thursday, Datti-Baba Ahmed said it is absolutely incorrect to suggest the party is benefitting from the protest.

According to him, the party is always on the side of the people and in support of good governance but has not in any way been a direct beneficiary of the protest.

He added that the use of the word massacre in describing the events of the original #EndSARS protest in 2020 is debatable but it is regrettable that Nigerians were attacked.

Naija News reports he made the clarification during an interview with Politics Today on Channels TV.

He said, “It’s a very heavy statement to make, saying that our party, Labour Party is a beneficiary of EndSARS. While we are always on the side of the people, on side of good governance, we are against attrition, we are against repression and all those.

“You may be more correct to put it in another way, but we are not direct beneficiaries of EndSARS. The use of the word massacre is highly debatable. We never wanted EndSARS to happen. We never any Nigerians whatsoever to be attacked. Accordingly, we are not happy for anybody to say we are beneficiaries of EndSARS.

“We benefit from a peaceful Nigeria. That is what we benefit from. We benefit from progress and development. We are about correcting all the mistakes of bad governance.”