{"id":161353,"date":"2025-05-05T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T07:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-presidency-peter-obi-kwankwaso-should-not-run-hakeem-baba-ahmed"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:30:21","slug":"2027-presidency-peter-obi-kwankwaso-should-not-run-hakeem-baba-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-presidency-peter-obi-kwankwaso-should-not-run-hakeem-baba-ahmed","title":{"rendered":"2027 Presidency: Peter Obi, Kwankwaso should not run \u2013 Hakeem Baba-Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu in the Office of the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has suggested that former presidential candidates of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi and New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso should not run for the presidency in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed said Obi and Kwankwaso should step aside for the younger generation, alongside Tinubu and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that their generation no longer have anything to offer Nigerians because they have played themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Trust TV, he said: \u201cPeter Obi, Kwankwaso should also step aside for the younger generation, alongside President Tinubu and Atiku.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis particular generation has played itself out, they really have nothing to offer this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going through the same politics again where there is bitterness and the winner takes it all, it has to be me at all cost, and when you get to power, you don\u2019t have the energy and the strength to tackle the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo long as it\u2019s one of these guys, the rest will not step down, I don\u2019t expect all of them to go into a room and say let\u2019s all step down for Nigeria, I\u2019m not sure their patriotism is that high for all of them to agree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point I\u2019m making is that the nation needs a new lease of life, I don\u2019t see Nigeria with a bright future under these tired and elderly politicians who have spent the last 20 to 30 years just simply managing power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed also faulted the decision of presidents to spend eight years in power.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cOne of the distracting things is this nonsense that once you are president, you must serve for two terms. Who said that? When the NEF realized that Buhari was bad news for this country, he wasn\u2019t performing and not willing to fix this country, we rallied other groups in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe met here in Abuja and told the nation that we don\u2019t trust Buhari with another four years, and we were right. Ohanaeze, NEF, Afenifere, and I think about four or five groups met in Abuja and said Buhari should not be given a second term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now you hear things like he must do his eight years, what about the South? We have taken to very crude politics and put it on the constitution where everyone is saying the South must have its eight years because Buhari did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is this thing coming from? These are some of the rubbish that is poisoning the politics. Even if you can\u2019t perform, what if you have health or age issues, must you remain president for eight years simply because you come from one part of the country? This is the kind of thinking that keeps us declining permanently.\u201d<\/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 in the Office of the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has suggested that former presidential candidates of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi and New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso should not run for the presidency in 2027. 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