Former presidential adviser Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has voiced concerns over President Bola Tinubu’s silence amid reports of dropping Vice President Kashim Shettima as a running mate ahead of the 2027 elections.
During an appearance on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’, Baba-Ahmed stated that Tinubu ought to have addressed the rumours.
“I would be very curious to find out what it is that makes all these stories about dropping him [Shettima].
“I think, somewhere along the line, to be honest, the President should have done something a long time ago,” he said.
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Speaking further, Baba-Ahmed pointed out that such rumours would easily be laid to rest by an emphatic statement from the president.
“If all these stories about dropping the Vice President for somebody else, another Northern Vice President, maybe a Christian, maybe from somewhere else — have absolutely no iota of truth, it would have taken just one thing: the President directly and personally saying, ‘Stop this nonsense.
“I have confidence in my Vice President, I work well with him, I am happy with him, and I want this nonsense about me dropping him, now or in the future, to stop. “I will take a decision on who my running mate is in 2027 when we get there. In the meantime, we have work to do. But he didn’t say that. His people didn’t say that,” he added.
