Presidency has hit back at Yusuf Baba -Ahmed , Vice Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party LP, in the 2023 Presidential election, over his critical position on the President Bola Tinubu’s policies.
Ahmed, had while appearing on Arise Television programme, had insisted that President Tinubu cannot win the 2027 presidency and urged him not to waste his energy contesting the election.
But Sunday Dare, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, described Ahmed’s arguements as ” flawed, devoid of reasons and empty”.
He noted the President has within the first two years in office has ” demonstrated capacity to govern and re-engineer Nigeria, in a way, hitherto unknown”
Dare who stated that “Tinubu will win comfortably in 2027”, added that “no matter the volume of armchair theories and political conspiracies. His performance will clear the path.
“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.”
Dare, in his assessment of Baba-Ahmed’s presentation, added that the labour Party Chieftain was being dishonest in his conclusion that President Tinubu is not fulfilling his campaign promises.
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Dare, while likening Baba-Ahmed’s postulations to that of a charlatan prophet whose predictions n very come to pass, added that “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.
“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.
“If listening to a Peter Obi interview was a punishment, listening to Baba-Ahmed, his defunct running mate, is a torment.
“His political logic is not fit for even a first-year political science class, and even then, they will query his postulations.
” He chose to base his political calculations on President Bola Tinubu not winning a second term given his antecedents and because Nigerians will decide at the polls among other things.
“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. But Politics is not for theorists or the faint hearted nor the parochial.”
Dare counseled the Baba Ahmed to know that”politics is for those with a solid track record of performance, the courageous, far-sighted and gifted. Qualities he clearly lacks.
“Another thing Baba Ahmed lacks is the capacity for honesty, because that is the only way to describe his claim that President Tinubu is not fulfilling his campaign promises.
“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.
“Even the IMF recently acknowledged – “Tinubu’s Reforms have put the economy in a better position to navigate this external environment..” Schimmelpfennig.
“So, instead of running the circuit of television networks to peddle his poorly thought-out conjectures, Baba Ahmed should seriously consider how to rehabilitate his failed political career, an intervention he urgently needs.
“And if Datti Baba-Ahmed is smart he will simply keep quiet and leave politics for those equipped for that complicated art.”
