{"id":161140,"date":"2025-05-02T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-support-younger-presidential-candidate-take-apc-to-cleaners-tinubus-ex-aide-tells-atiku"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:18:07","slug":"2027-support-younger-presidential-candidate-take-apc-to-cleaners-tinubus-ex-aide-tells-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-support-younger-presidential-candidate-take-apc-to-cleaners-tinubus-ex-aide-tells-atiku","title":{"rendered":"2027: Support younger presidential candidate, take APC to cleaners \u2013 Tinubu\u2019s ex-aide tells Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Matters, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ex-presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar against running for the Presidency in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed said Atiku should support a younger presidential candidate in 2027 and play a fatherly role to the person.<\/p>\n<p>He issued the advice while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed said a younger presidential candidate from Atiku will take the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the \u201ccleaners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf I have the chance to sit with Atiku, I would say to him- Sir, you have done your bit, you have held up the democratic process, you represented it well, your name has been written in gold, it\u2019s time to yield the ground to a younger person; don\u2019t run in 2027, play a fatherly role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind a good and young person. If he were to field a younger person that is more capable with less skeletons in their cupboard, somebody with less liabilities, in age, health, and everything; they will take APC to the cleaners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the ruling party is growing with the wrong set of people.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed said most of those defecting to the APC are either looking for positions of running away from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPC is growing with the wrong people, all these defections is aimed at one thing, they are looking for positions or running away from EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people running into the APC from all over the place are actually a liability, it\u2019s simple a refugee camp that will burst,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Matters, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ex-presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar against running for the Presidency in 2027. Baba-Ahmed said Atiku should support a younger presidential candidate in 2027 and play a fatherly role to the person. 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