2027: North drifting away from you, step apart – Hakeem Baba-Ahmed writes Tinubu

Former Particular Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Issues, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has warned that the North is drifting away from the President as a consequence of financial hardship, insecurity and different challenges.

In an open chief to Tinubu, Baba-Ahmed charged the President to step apart in 2027 for a brand new generational leaders.

Baba-Ahmed additionally cautioned Tinubu in opposition to prioritizing reelection over governance, as he nonetheless has two years forward.

“Step apart — not in your opponents, however for a brand new era of Nigerians who can carry the nation ahead with recent power and concepts.

“Our era has performed its time. It will be a masterstroke if you happen to and your social gathering yielded the sphere to new voices and new management.

“Two years is a very long time, you’ll be able to nonetheless obtain a lot.

“However if you happen to shift consideration now to electoral ambitions, you threat shedding each governance momentum and public goodwill.

“When you win once more with out reforming your fashion and technique, it’s possible you’ll spend 4 extra years preserving failure. When you lose, your legacy could possibly be worn out straight away,” Baba-Ahmed stated.

He harassed that Nigerians are aggrieved with Tinubu’s administration.

“The north is drifting out of your management beneath the burden of financial hardship, insecurity, and alienation.

“The east stays politically disengaged, whereas the south-south is fragmented. The south-west has been lukewarm, and its privileged place might develop into a burden. The north-east is deeply wounded and might now not be taken without any consideration,” he added.

The ex-presidential aide urged Tinubu to give attention to addressing the nation’s most urgent issues.

“Your closed-door fashion of management, your obvious indifference to complaints of ethnic bias in appointments, and the notion that you just steadily run the nation from overseas whereas attending to non-public issues have created the picture of an remoted chief heading an insular administration.

“Your interior and secondary circles don’t replicate the self-discipline or inspiration crucial to rework Nigeria,” he stated.