The National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has warned that Nigeria would become unstable if President Bola Tinubu wins a second term.
He argued that the incumbent administration is disconnected from the daily needs of Nigerians.
Speaking to newsmen, Baba-Ahmed lamented that the country is going through one of its most challenging periods, citing rising insecurity, widespread poverty, and increasing social fragmentation.
The PRP chieftain stated that the country is going through one of its most challenging periods, citing rising insecurity, widespread poverty, and increasing social fragmentation.
Baba-Ahmed stressed that urgent political change would be necessary in 2027 to prevent what he described as a worsening national decline.
He said, “We’ve never been in a war situation more than we are now. We have a government that is too removed from the people.
“They don’t really understand the state in which Nigerians live. We are living with the highest level of insecurity that we have ever lived with. Poverty levels are unprecedented, and young people have no hope. There is nothing to inspire them to be good citizens and to grow up in a country that does not care for them to be productive adults. We are fighting each other, we are hating each other.
“The country is more divided now than it has ever been. And it’s very important that we put an end to this drift in 2027. As I said before, another term for the same administration may just put an end to this country.”
Responding to suggestions that opposition to the President is part of a coordinated political strategy, the PRP leader dismissed the claim, insisting instead that Nigeria’s challenges stem from escalating criminal activities and the state’s inability to effectively contain them.
He maintained that public dissatisfaction is driven by real-life experiences of hardship, not political manipulation, and urged the government to focus on addressing insecurity and improving welfare conditions.
“If there is a gang up, it will be a gang up of criminals and bandits and killers and kidnappers that the same president has not been able to contain. Those are the only people who will gang up so that Nigerians will be killed and maimed and made poorer. It’s no gang up. The President is incapable of securing Nigerians and is blaming the criminals. He’s blaming politicians rather than dealing with the sources, the manifestation of insecurity.
“If he said there is a gang up against him, it’s not coming from law-abiding citizens, it is coming from those who think President Tinubu should mobilise to protect them. There must be a gang up involving criminals and bandits and kidnappers. We don’t know about that,” he added.
