“Neither Buhari Nor Tinubu Became President To Run Nigeria” – Hakeem Baba-Ahmed

By Gideon Njoku

Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, until a couple of months ago, Presidential Adviser, Politics, in the office of the Vice President, has said that neither the late President Muhammadu Buhari, nor President Bola Tinubu, became Nigerian President to serve the Nation. Instead, said he, both men became Presidents for personal reasons.

Baba-Ahmed spoke Wednesday on Channel Television’s Politics Today.

According to him, Buhari became President, not to run Nigeria but because “he just wanted to be President.”

He noticed this early enough during the Buhari Presidency, and resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

He said: “I was the Chairman of APC in my State for three years. I was the Chairman when we transited from the CPC and went into the coalition with Tinubu’s Party.

“About six months into Buhari’s Presidency, I resigned my membership of the Party because I could see then that I didn’t think that Buhari became President to run the country.

“I think he just wanted to become President. Just six months into that, I left.”

Baba-Ahmed also has the same opinion of President Tinubu.

He said of the President: “I think there are some similarities between Tinubu  and Buhari. They both wanted to become President for personal reasons more than anything else.

“I think that they have laboured in the political process for so long that it became about them and that is the wrong reason to seek political power.

“You want power so that you can govern the people and improve things, it must never be about you.”