That Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has picked Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election is an established fact.

Be that as it may, herewith is many things that Nigerians don’t know about the Labour Party vice presidential candidate…

Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed was born to the Baba-Ahmed family in Zaria, Kaduna State in 1976

He is among the thirty-three children of his father, Baba Ahmed, who was an Arab cattle-trader from modern-day Mauritania, who later became a notable professor and expert on Islamic jurisprudence.

He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Maiduguri in Borno State.

Baba Ahmed was once an employee of the security Printing and Minting, Lagos before venturing into politics.

He was elected as a House of Representatives member for Zaria Federal Constituency on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party in 2003.

In 2006, while in the Federal House of Representatives, he earned the title of Doctor of Philosophy when he completed his Ph.D studies at the University of Westminster.

Baba Ahmed is the founder and Pro-Chancellor of Baze University, located in Abuja. The institution commenced operation in April 2011.

He won the Kaduna North Senatorial seat in April 2011, and he occupied the seat from 2011 to 2012.