The National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has warned that Nigeria could face deeper instability if President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is re-elected in 2027 under the current national conditions.
Speaking in an interview, Baba-Ahmed said Nigeria is facing worsening insecurity, poverty and social division, while accusing the government of being disconnected from citizens. “We’ve never been in a war situation more than we are now. We have a government that is too removed from the people,” he said.
“They don’t really understand the state in which Nigerians live. We are living with the highest level of insecurity that we have ever lived with. Poverty levels are unprecedented, young people have no hope. There is nothing to inspire them to be good citizens and to grow up in a country that does not care for them to be productive adults. We are fighting each other, we are hating each other.
“The country is more divided now than it has ever been. And it’s very important that we put an end to this drift in 2027. As I said before, another term for the same administration may just put an end to this country.”
Baba-Ahmed also dismissed claims that opposition to Tinubu is a political gang-up, insisting that the real threat comes from criminals and armed groups. “If there is a gang up, it will be a gang up of criminals and bandits and killers and kidnappers that the same president has not been able to contain,” he said.
“The President is incapable of securing Nigerians and is blaming criminals. He’s blaming politicians rather than dealing with the sources, the manifestation of insecurity.
“If he said there is a gang up against him, it’s not coming from law-abiding citizens, it is coming from those who think President Tinubu should mobilise to protect them. There must be a gang up involving criminals and bandits and kidnappers. We don’t know about that,” he added.