Sunday Dare, Special Adviser on Media and Public
Communication to President Bola Tinubu, has delivered a sharp rebuke to recent comments
made by the Labour Party’s 2023 vice-presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti
Baba-Ahmed, regarding the 2027 presidential election.
During an interview on Arise Television on Friday,
Baba-Ahmed had urged President Tinubu not to seek re-election, arguing that
Nigerians would demand a shift toward what he described as “true democracy” by
2027.
Reacting on Saturday via his official X handle, Dare
dismissed the remarks as lacking substance and coherence. He labelled
Baba-Ahmed’s political projections as “illogical” and his analysis as
“misguided.”
“Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed’s ‘illogical logic’ was all over the
place in his recent interview with a television channel,” Dare wrote. “He
peddled arguments that were flawed, devoid of reason and empty. He must have as
well dropped from space, going by what he spewed out during the interview.”
Dare likened Baba-Ahmed’s political analysis to baseless
predictions and questioned his grasp of Nigeria’s political dynamics. He also
aimed at both Baba-Ahmed and his former running mate, Peter Obi, calling them a
“double whammy” in the political space.
“Listening to Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed spurn his postulations
about the political future of Nigeria and that of the incumbent President is
like listening to the new year predictions of charlatan ‘prophets’ which never
come through. Yusuf Baba Ahmed and his co-traveller Peter Obi are indeed a
‘double whammy’ in the Nigerian political space,” Dare said.
He went further, ridiculing Baba-Ahmed’s logic as inferior
even to that of a first-year political science student.
““If listening to a Peter Obi interview was a punishment,
listening to Baba-Ahmed, his defunct running mate, is a torment,” Dare said.
“His political logic is not fit for even a first-year political science class,
and even then, they will query his postulations.”
Dare argued that Baba-Ahmed failed to engage with the
substance of Tinubu’s administration, instead relying on ungrounded theories.
“He conveniently avoided the substance of performance and
capacity. Unfortunately, he chose to walk into a lane he was unfamiliar with
and chose to confront a politician he is no match for. If theories could fly,
Yusuf Baba Ahmed and all the other Presidential Wannabes (PW) could have become
President since,” Dare wrote.
He further accused Baba-Ahmed of dishonesty in claiming that
President Tinubu had not delivered on his campaign promises. Citing economic
reforms and international validation, Dare said the administration’s efforts
are beginning to yield results.
“The positive impacts of the tough choices the President
Tinubu has made in the interest of the country are already being felt, and the
economic indices are there to prove this,” Dare said, quoting the International
Monetary Fund’s recent statement that Tinubu’s reforms have strengthened
Nigeria’s economic position.
Looking ahead to the next general election, Dare was
confident in Tinubu’s chances.
“In 2027, Baba Ahmed and the other PWs will need all the
marines available to defeat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who in about two years
has demonstrated his capacity to govern and to re-engineer Nigeria in a way
hitherto unknown,” he said.
“Tinubu will win comfortably in 2027, no matter the volume
of armchair theories and political conspiracies. His performance will clear the
path.”
Dare ended his statement, saying: “…If Datti Baba-Ahmed is
smart he will simply keep quiet and leave politics for those equipped for that
complicated art.”
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