The 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed<\/span><\/span>, has announced plans to leave the Labour Party<\/span><\/span> and join the Peoples Redemption Party<\/span><\/span> (PRP).<\/p>\n He made the disclosure on Tuesday during an appearance on Politics Today<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n According to him, the decision stems from internal disagreements within the Labour Party, which he said has strayed from its founding ideals.<\/p>\n \u201cI am leaving the Labour Party tomorrow. There is more to it. When there was real peace in the Labour Party was when they posted back.<\/p>\n They redeployed someone with a specific purpose and because of the antecedent of the individual to make life difficult, particularly for me. What the Labour Party stood for then is no longer what it is today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Baba-Ahmed added that his resignation will take effect at midnight, confirming that his next political destination is the PRP.<\/p>\n \u201cI am leaving the Labour Party midnight and I am joining PRP. PRP is the new destination. PRP is the one with a history. It\u2019s about 75 years old,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n The PRP, founded in 1978 by the late Aminu Kano<\/span><\/span>, is one of Nigeria\u2019s oldest political movements and is known for its progressive ideology.<\/p>\n Baba-Ahmed was the running mate to Peter Obi<\/span><\/span> in the 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n More details shortly\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has announced plans to leave the Labour Party and join the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). He made the disclosure on Tuesday during an appearance on Politics Today. According to him, the decision stems from internal disagreements within the Labour Party, which he said has strayed from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":242629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[843,366],"class_list":["post-242628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-datti-baba-ahmed","tag-labour-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Datti-Baba-Ahmed-1045x632-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}