Datti will not debate with you; instead, bring your preferred candidates - LP responses Soyinka

The Labour Party said Datti had no political justification for engaging the Nobel Laureate in a debate. Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Labour Party's vice presidential candidate, has declined the challenge of an open debate with Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka. Datti was also accused of using "fascist language" by the Nobel Laureate, who added that his statement is an attempt to "dictate to the supreme arbiter of the nation." However, in a statement released by the Obi-Datti Media Office on Saturday, April 8, 2023, the Labour Party vice-presidential candidate requested that Soyinka bring forward his preferred candidates to debate him.