By Atoyebi Nike
Former presidential adviser Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has urged President Bola Tinubu to consider stepping aside, arguing that it may be in Nigeria’s best interest.
Speaking on Arise TV’s Daybreak programme on Monday, Baba-Ahmed said Tinubu’s two and a half years in office have fallen short of public expectations, with a gap between government reports and citizens’ experiences of rising poverty, hardship, and insecurity.
“There’s a wide discrepancy between what he says he’s doing and what people say they are living,” he said, criticizing the President’s handling of security. “President Buhari left a terrible security situation and Tinubu doesn’t appear to have improved it; rather, it appears that he has made it worse.”
He suggested that factors such as age, the fulfillment of Tinubu’s lifelong presidential ambition, and limited further value may justify a leadership change. “If President Tinubu loves the survival of Nigeria, I think he should call it quits,” Baba-Ahmed declared, adding that Nigerians should seek an alternative leader in 2027, “whether within or outside his party, who has better qualities.”
