Support Younger Candidate and Confront APC in 2027 – Tinubu’s Ex-Aide Tells Atiku

The Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP, and former presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar have been advised by former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Matters Hakeem Baba-Ahmed not to run for president in 2027.

Baba-Ahmed advised Atiku to act as a father figure to a younger presidential contender in 2027.

During a Thursday night appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, he gave the advise.

The All Progressives Congress, or APC, would be taken to the “cleaners” by a younger Atiku presidential candidate, according to Baba-Ahmed.

He stated: “If I get the chance to sit with Atiku, I would tell him: Sir, you have done your share, you have supported democracy, you have done a good job representing it, your name is in gold, it’s time to give up the seat to someone younger; don’t run in 2027, and act like a father.”

“Look for a decent young person. If he were to field a younger, more skilled someone with less skeletons in their closet—someone with fewer vulnerabilities in terms of age, health, and everything else—they would completely destroy APC.

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The ruling party is expanding with the wrong people, he insisted.

Baba-Ahmed claimed that the majority of people switching to the APC are either seeking jobs or escaping the EFCC, or Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

“The wrong people are joining the APC, and all of these defections are directed towards the same goal: they are seeking jobs or escaping the EFCC.”

“The people who are rushing into the APC from all directions are a liability; it’s just a refugee camp that will blow up,” he continued.