Peter Obi’s Running Mate, Baba Ahmed, Raises Alarm Over Social Media Impostor
Senator Baba Ahmed Datti the Vice-Presidential Aspirant of the Labour Party (LP) has raised concerns over the struggles he has been having with impostors.
Senator Datti revealed that the matter took a different turn the day he was announced as the running mate to Mr. Peter Gregory Obi on the platform of the Labour Party.
He said ‘’Impostors had right from the inception of the various social media platforms, opened accounts in my name without my permission or approval. I wrote several complaints accordingly, which were never attended to satisfactorily. This situation remained for nearly a decade, and I decided to be inactive on the platforms till my complaints were satisfactorily attended to. Ever since indications began to appear about my joining the Labour Party, more impostors hurriedly opened more accounts in my name, in most cases misspelled or in the wrong format.”
According to him, some of the communications were premeditated and designed to set him against legitimate and established responsible religious organizations, which often culminates in adverse reactions from other social media users.
The politician noted that there has sufficient justification for concluding that the party’s opponents and critics may have sponsored the unholy acts during a politically sensitive period.
He, therefore, called on Nigerians to disregard any exchange or communications from the fake social media accounts.
“I, hereby, dissociate my humble self from the creation, ownership, and operation of any such social media accounts and equally declare that all exchanges and communications therefrom are without my knowledge or input in any way whatsoever. I call on the social media platforms owners, creators, and operators to immediately realize the dangers their highly valued technologies portend in society and quickly responsibly rise to the challenge of preventing further creation and use of fake accounts’’ Senator Datti concluded.