The Presidency has dismissed recent comments by former Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, over the political future of President Bola Tinubu, declaring confidently that the President would win re-election “comfortably” in 2027 based on his performance and leadership capacity.
In a strongly worded post on his verified X handle, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, described Datti’s recent interview on a television channel as “illogical,” “empty,” and “devoid of reason.”
“Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed’s ‘illogical logic’ was all over the place in his recent interview. He peddled arguments that were flawed, devoid of reason and empty,” Dare wrote, adding that Datti’s political analysis was as unreliable as “the New Year predictions of charlatan prophets which never come through.”
Mocking the former vice-presidential candidate’s political credentials, Dare likened listening to Datti’s interview to enduring “torment,” and dismissed both Datti and his 2023 running mate, Peter Obi, as a “double whammy” in Nigeria’s political space.
“If listening to a Peter Obi interview was a punishment, listening to Baba-Ahmed, his defunct running mate, is a torment,” he said. “His political logic is not fit for even a first-year political science class.”
Dare also took issue with Datti’s suggestion that Tinubu’s antecedents would prevent him from securing a second term, saying the Labour Party chieftain deliberately ignored the President’s track record of performance and economic reforms.
“He conveniently avoided the substance of performance and capacity,” Dare wrote. “Unfortunately, he chose to walk into a lane he was unfamiliar with and chose to confront a politician he is no match for.”
Dismissing Datti and other opposition hopefuls as “Presidential Wannabes,” Dare said politics is not for theorists or the faint-hearted, but for individuals with a “solid track record of performance, the courageous, far-sighted and gifted—qualities Datti clearly lacks.”
He also accused the Labour Party politician of lacking honesty, particularly in claiming that President Tinubu has not fulfilled his campaign promises. Dare pointed to economic reforms implemented by the administration, citing endorsement from international institutions like the IMF as proof of progress.
“The positive impacts of the tough choices the President has made in the interest of the country are already being felt. Even the IMF recently acknowledged — ’Tinubu’s reforms have put the economy in a better position to navigate this external environment,’” he said, quoting IMF representative Ari Aisen Schimmelpfennig.
Looking ahead to the next presidential election, Dare declared: “In 2027, Baba-Ahmed and the other Presidential Wannabes will need all the marines available to defeat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
He concluded with a blunt rebuke: “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… If he is smart, he will simply keep quiet and leave politics for those equipped for that complicated art.”
