The National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has cautioned that Nigeria could face serious instability if President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is re-elected for a second term under the current national conditions.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen, Baba-Ahmed said the country is going through one of its most challenging periods, citing rising insecurity, widespread poverty, and increasing social fragmentation.
He argued that the present administration appears disconnected from the daily struggles of citizens, adding that many Nigerians, especially young people, are losing hope due to limited opportunities and a lack of direction for the future.
According to him, these conditions have deepened mistrust within society, with communities becoming increasingly divided and tensions continuing to rise across different regions.
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, 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 government’s 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 be made poorer. It’s no gang up. The President is incapable of securing Nigerians and is blaming 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.
