The former Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to seek re-election in the 2027 presidential race. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television on Friday, Datti said it would be in the best interest of the country if Tinubu bowed out and gave Nigerians a chance to choose genuine democratic leadership.
“I expect Tinubu to throw in the towel. If he is that smart a politician, I expect him to be. You know that I always tell the truth. For someone to have organised in 2007, culminating in his electoral heist in 2023, that person must be super smart, and I am not praising him at all,” Datti said.
Datti noted that despite Tinubu’s political strategies, the tide in the country is shifting, and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may not have the support it once had. He believes that the failures of the current administration to address core issues such as corruption and insecurity will have significant consequences in the next general elections.
According to him, “If he is that smart, everything is there to show that he is going to lose in 2027. There are two possible candidates that I cannot mention, and they are the nemesis of Tinubu.”
He continued by stating that Nigerians are becoming more politically aware and may rally behind credible leadership to change the course of the nation. “It is proven that APC is a lying party, because Buhari did not fight corruption or provide security, nor will Tinubu do this,” he said.
Datti believes that a shift in leadership will help Nigeria move toward healing and unity. “So going forward, I see APC losing this election and I see Nigerians somehow uniting and seeing someone like me saying look, if you cannot practice this democracy, then Nigeria is not for you and they will decide for the first time to practice giving no room for bad leadership in Nigeria and gradually, we will begin to heal our land. We will begin to recover, unite, and take each other as brothers and sisters. Their time is up,” he added.
