Yusuf Datti Ahmed Biography, Age, Education, Career And Net Worth
Yusuf Datti Baba Ahmed is a Nigeria economist and a politician. He served as the senator for Kaduna north from 2011 to 2012 and a member of the house of representative from 2003 to 2007. Yusuf Datti Ahmed was born on 19 July 1969 to the prominent Baba-Ahmed family of Zaria
Educational Background
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed obtained BSc and MSc in economics from the University of Maiduguri in Borno state.
He holds PhD in economics from the University of Westminster .
Career
Baba-Ahmed has worked in the security printing and minting Lagos State before entering politics .
Baba-Ahmed was elected in April 2003 to the Federal House of Representatives for the Zaria federal constituency , Kaduna state under the platform of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) .
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Datti Baba-Ahmed was popular for his principled activism .During the administration of president Olusegun Obasanjo , he was among lawmakers who opposed letting Obasanjo run for third term.
In May 2006 he said he would not run for reelection unless action was taken to investigate allegations that members had been bribed to support the constitutional changes needed for a third term presidency .
In 2007 , Datti Ahmed took the Independent National Electoral Commission to court over conduct of past elections. Baba-Ahmed contested and won the Kaduna North Senatorial elections in 2011 under Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) which was then led by President Muhammadu Buhari
The election was challenged at the court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which led to Ahmed’s controversial victory being upturned.
In 2018, he ran unsuccessfully for the Presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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In 2022, he pulled out as a gubernatorial aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for the 2023 governorship elections in Kaduna State, citing his refusal to buy delegate votes as his reason.
On 8 July 2022, he was picked as Peter Obi‘s running mate and the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party ahead the 2023 Nigeria general election.
Datti Ahmed is the founder and pro chancellor of Baze University.
Personal life
Yusuf Datti Ahmed is married to with children. He is a Muslim from Zaria, Kaduna state.
He is among the thirty-three children of his father Baba Ahmed, who was an Arab cattle trader from the modern day Mauritania who later became a notable scholar and expert on Islamic jurisprudence .
Yusuf Datti Ahmed Net Worth
Yusuf Datti Ahmed net worth is estimated to be $85 million
