Gay Rights Activist, Bisi Alimi Challenges Peter Obi Over VP’s Statement On Group

Nigerian gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi has challenged the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour party, Peter Obi to make a statement condemning the views held by his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed about queer Nigerians.

Naija News reports that the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, in a shared throwback video from 2014 had called for the killing of members of the LGBTQ community in Nigeria.

The former Senator made gave the submission while speaking in favour of the anti-gay bill that was passed by President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in January 2014.

At the time, he said, “such elements” referring to LGBTQ members 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.”