Former presidential political adviser, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu and the late former President, Muhammadu Buhari, became president for personal reasons.
Naijaonpoint reports that Hakeem Baba-Ahmed made the assertion while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.
Baba-Ahmed said Buhari and Tinubu never became president to run Nigeria, but rather because they believe they have laboured in the political process for so long.
According to Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Tinubu and Buhari’s decision to seek the presidency is a misguided reason to pursue political power.
Asked if he would join the African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition, Baba-Ahmed said, “I haven’t. I have a party. I’m a member of the PRP.
“I was the chairman of APC in my state for three years. I was the chairman when we transitioned from 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 a president, just six months into that and I left. 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 people and improve things, it must never be about you.”