Former political adviser to President Bola Tinubu, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has written off the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), staging a comeback in the 2027 elections.
According to him, after holding on to power for so long, the leaders of the PDP lost their heads after losing the 2015 election.
He argued that the PDP is a house divided against itself, and nobody seems capable of rescuing the situation.
Naijaonpoint reports that Baba-Ahmed made the declaration on Thursday during an interview on Arise Television.
He said, “The PDP is drifting away. I think it is gone, and I do not believe anyone can fix it. The PDP is not the only party capable of providing a credible opposition to the APC; there is the ADC and others.
“I think that sometimes we blame the government too much and we don’t pay attention to the damage that the PDP, the opposition, has done to itself. The truth about it is that PDP has been on the free fall for a long time.
“These are politicians who held power for a very long time and it turns out that these people never had any experience in being in the opposition. These are accomplished politicians who run the country, and suddenly they lost power and they lost their heads.”
I Don’t Blame Tinubu Alone
Speaking further on the political situation in Nigeria ahead of the 2027 elections, Baba-Ahmed submitted that Tinubu is bringing too many politicians into his circle, but that is not actual power.
He added that while Tinubu can be blamed for the current trend of political developments in the country, the PDP itself has not been able to hold its house together.
Baba-Ahmed lamented the division and crisis rocking the PDP, saying the inability of the party to resolve its disagreements is giving the ruling party the opportunity to attract more politicians.
“People blame Tinubu. I blame him as well, because there are areas clearly where he’s wrong. He’s amassing too much power, or what appears to be too much power. He is actually collecting too many politicians around him. That’s not necessarily power.
“But what has the PDP done to itself? PDP has been involved in destroying itself consistently. And what is amazing is that they started very well as a party, accomplished politicians, people who had served their country very well. And certainly it has degenerated and this is where we are.
“They allowed their party to split. They couldn’t find a way to either take the part that is left. It’s not the first time PDP has taken a huge chunk of itself and given it to the opposition. This happened in 2015 and it’s happening again,” he said.