Atiku, Obi, El-rufai: Tinubu’s former adviser, Hakeem confirms serious division in coalition

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There is a significant split among those leading the coalition to overthrow the president in 2027, according to Hakeem Baba Ahmed, a former political adviser to President Bola Tinubu.

Speaking on the Arise TV morning show on Monday, Hakeem said he has talked to members of the opposition’s top brass and that there is split among them.

He claims that it is a combination of a small number of politicians who have refused to make way for more capable and better Nigerians, especially young people, to take the lead in the movement.

He said, “I’m not involved in the coalition discussion. I am just observing with a lot of worries that an opportunity to create a strong opposition to the ruling party is being messed up by people who insist they must be the face of that opposition.

“There are divisions between and among them. It is a coalition of a few politicians, who thought that they could arrive at some understanding and then open the door and say “fellow Nigerians, we have agreed that this one will be this one and this one will be that”.

“None of these people should lead or be in a position to determine who should be in the coalition, they can work behind the scene.

“Who are the younger Nigerians that should be at this party? Where are the youths? They are missing the point. They think that politics is about them but it is not”.

A few days ago, there were reports that the opposition coalition, which included former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Nasir El-Rufai, Peter Obi, the former Labour Party presidential candidate, and others, had started the process of registering a new party called the All Democratic Alliance, or ADA.

Atiku’s camp later revealed that the former VP had not accepted the name.

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