Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Matters, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has warned former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar against standing for president in 2027.
According to Baba-Ahmed, Atiku should endorse a younger presidential candidate in 2027 and act as a father figure for them.
He made the remarks while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday night.
Baba-Ahmed claimed that a younger presidential candidate from Atiku would “cleanse” the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He stated, “If I had the opportunity to sit with Atiku, I would tell him, Sir, you have done your part, you have held up the democratic process, you have represented it well, your name has been written in gold, it is time to give the ground to a younger person; don’t run in 2027, play a fatherly role.”
“Find a nice, youthful person. If he fielded a younger, more capable candidate with less skeletons in their cabinet, someone with fewer vulnerabilities in terms of age, health, and everything else, they would take APC to the cleaners.”
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He argued that the ruling party is attracting the wrong kind of individuals.
According to Baba-Ahmed, the majority of people defecting to the APC are hunting for posts or fleeing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC.
“APC is growing with the wrong people; all of these defections are targeted at one goal: they are hunting for jobs or fleeing the EFCC.
“The people running into the APC from all over the place are actually a liability, it’s simple a refugee camp that will burst,” he told reporters.
