The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has been challenged by Nigerian gay rights activist Bisi Alimi to issue a statement denouncing the opinions of his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, on queer Nigerians.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Labour Party vice presidential candidate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed called for the murder of LGBTQ people in Nigeria in a widely circulated throwback video from 2014.
In support of the anti-gay law that President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration passed in January 2014, the former senator made the submission.
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He declared at the time that LGBTQ individuals should be “killed” for being gay.
Following Baba Ahmed’s emergence as the running mate of Obi, netizens dug up a video of him making the call against homosexuals.
Bisi Alimi, a popular gay rights activist, in reaction to the video, took to Twitter to challenge the Labour Party presidential candidate to address the controversial statement.
He wrote, “This is the potential Vice President of Nigeria, he is in record here advocating that “such elements should be killed”, the elements he mentioned in the video are LGBTQI people. We need to talk about this.
Here is the statement! One thing is to have ideological difference and express that, another is to call for the killing of fellow humans. I am giving the @PeterObi and @NgLabour the chance to make a statement on this… not that we will ever get any.”
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