2027: Back a Younger Candidate and Defeat APC – Tinubu’s Former Aide Advises Atiku
Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Matters, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has encouraged former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar not to run for president in 2027.
Baba-Ahmed suggested that Atiku endorse a younger presidential candidate in 2027 and act as a father figure to him.
He gave the advise 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, or 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.”
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“Find a good, young person. If he fielded a younger, more capable candidate with less skeletons in their closet, someone with fewer vulnerabilities in terms of age, health, and everything else, they would take APC to the cleaners.”
He emphasized that the ruling party is attracting the wrong individuals.
According to Baba-Ahmed, the majority of people defecting to the APC are seeking posts or fleeing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC.
“APC is growing with the wrong people; all of these defections are geared at one thing: finding 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 claimed.
