The vice presidential candidate of the Labour party in the 2023 general elections, Senator Yusuf Datti-Babba Ahmed was a guest on the prime time show with Charles Aniagolu on Arise TV. It was a 45mins interview which was centered on the variant issues bedeviling Nigeria as a nation. Below are the few Excerpts from the entire Interview below
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