{"id":177328,"date":"2025-09-02T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:29:37","slug":"only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed","title":{"rendered":"Only Elected Leaders Can Ensure Security Datti Baba-Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nigerians can only have true leaders when they are genuinely elected.<\/p>\n<p>Datti Baba-Ahmed stated this on Tuesday while responding to questions in an interview on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how to stop the cycle of killings in Nigeria, he said, \u201cOnly when you have the right leaders; you can only have the right leaders when you have them truly elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo long as people steal elections, you will never have security. Most drastic is that when that group of people use the tools of insecurity that we have seen in 2015, and it worked, and they achieved what they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd again they use, now, for example, the tools of religion, ethnicity, division within political parties and heavy use of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nigerians can only have true leaders when they are genuinely elected. Datti Baba-Ahmed stated this on Tuesday while responding to questions in an interview on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television. When asked how to stop the cycle of killings in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[7935,254],"class_list":["post-177328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-datti-baba-ahmed","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Only Elected Leaders Can Ensure Security Datti Baba-Ahmed - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nigerians can only have true leaders wh ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only Elected Leaders Can Ensure Security Datti Baba-Ahmed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nigerians can only have true leaders wh ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-02T20:03:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-02T21:29:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756836147.696232.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Only Elected Leaders Can Ensure Security Datti Baba-Ahmed\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-02T20:03:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-02T21:29:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed\"},\"wordCount\":155,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756836147.696232.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Datti Baba-Ahmed\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-elected-leaders-can-ensure-security-datti-baba-ahmed\",\"name\":\"Only Elected Leaders Can Ensure Security Datti Baba-Ahmed - 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