…You have become a northern liability since you came to limelight using all available means to butter your bread.
The recent political activities and stories credited to Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed did not come as a surprise to many Nigerians and Northern elites. This is because Baba Ahmed, a desperate politician from the North, tends to look for scapegoats to blame instead of looking inwards since he became a lame duck used by a disgruntled few.
We at the Arewa Voters Assembly (AVA) are aware that Baba Ahmed is addicted to making sensational stories and fabricated narratives against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose only crime is contesting for the presidency of Nigeria in 2023, which he won fair and square. In every rhetoric made by this self-appointed Nigerian patriot and bootlicker, there is nothing of substance except outrageous insinuations against President Tinubu and nothing more.
The lies alluded to by Baba Ahmed that the late President Buhari, of blessed memory, accused PBAT of being bad news is a lie from the pit of hell, and we have it on good authority that he fabricated the story for cheap political score. We can authoritatively say that he was never that close to the General when he was alive, and this can be attested to by very close aides and associates of the former leader. In fact, the likes of Baba Ahmed and his ilk are bad news for our country because he is always looking for who to butter his bread and rehabilitate him as a lame duck.
You have conceived a personal hatred for President Tinubu who is trying to give Nigerians a country that works for all. But because of your preconceived agenda against any non-Hausa/Fulani leader, you will do anything to bring down any Nigerian President outside your borrowed identity.
Baba Ahmed is outstanding for only one thing: trying to brainwash ordinary people, the Talakawas, as a tool in his manipulative therapy for a narrow-minded political agenda because he is aware that they are gullible. The hallmark of his bitter political campaign against President Tinubu is a product of his pathetic mischief, mudslinging, casting of aspersions and doing anything possible to denigrate, disparage and malign the President at any given opportunity, just to show his disdain and lack of character and intellectual maturity.
You were an INEC Secretary appointed during the PDP era. What was the outcome of the elections conducted under your watch? You are only shedding crocodile tears for all the atrocities you and your gang of Northern political elites committed against the ordinary Talakawas in our region at large and Nigeria in general.
Your sudden leadership maneuvering of the PRP for your political aggrandizement is part of a grand illusionary chase and fantasy to impose a dark agenda on our people, which will be resisted by well-meaning Nigerians and the entire North because of your self-serving agenda and inordinate ambition of always plotting against a change agent and an advocate for good governance. Indeed, the country’s trajectory is gradually turning around in all ramifications, be it the economy, infrastructure, education, security and in all facets of our national life. What a big shame to narrow-minded people like you who allow your parochial minds to becloud your judgement just for a morsel of porridge and cheap publicity.
You were never associated with the PRP. Balarabe Musa, Malam Lawal Dambazau, Ammani Inuwa, Halle Jani and several other PRP bigwigs during their days were the active members and leaders.
You are an ideological pretender. Your mindset is anti-Talakawa, completely detached from their daily realities and activities. Therefore, you cannot deceive Nigerians that you are sympathetic to the plight of the Talakawas. We all know those that were truly our leaders and pillars, not interlopers and hirelings like you.
As Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, you were part of the cabal under Yar’Adua. You saw nothing wrong when cabal members were playing hide and seek with Nigerians over his ill health, neither did you come to tell Nigerians the truth then because for you, it is all about self and not for the collective good. May Almighty Allah rest his soul and grant him paradise.
We challenge Baba Ahmed to mention what the ordinary Talakawas and Northern Nigeria benefited from his being in government all these years.
We are aware of the position held by his younger brother in the defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA). He was in charge of the finances of the power company, but Baba Ahmed is yet to utter a word on the circumstances surrounding the failure of NEPA and the characters that looted its coffers dry.
Baba Ahmed, you served as Secretary to the Government of Kaduna State under an Idi Amin-like, brazen military Governor who arbitrarily sacked workers without regard to due process. He was unapologetically arresting and detaining citizens without trial whatsoever, including Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, without compensation. The poor workers and civil servants were obnoxiously thrown out from the state workforce without compensation, and they were ordinary people without visible means of subsistence outside the service. What a shame!
During the high-handed era of the State Governor, you never blinked an eyelid against his dictatorial leadership and remained in a juicy government position completely detached from the Talakawas. You spoke from both sides of the mouth and were completely drunk with power, not minding whose ox is gored, and today you have the temerity to speak? Go and hide your head in shame, you bootlicker!
We must state, with a fair amount of certainty too, that you are an ethnic champion and a sinew collaborating with retrogressive forces and bigots to stir up crisis in our multi-ethnic and multi-religious society before, during or after the 2027 general elections.
We make bold to state that Baba Ahmed suddenly found a voice to criticize the government because he could not find direct access to PBAT to misguide him. Baba Ahmed categorically said his grouse was that throughout the period he served as Political Adviser in the Office of the Vice President, he never met the President one-on-one.
This brings us to the task of analyzing the motive of Baba Ahmed’s rantings. To us in AVA, there is no meaning to his infamous activities other than working to install a visionless regime so that he can once again be part of the cabal to hold Nigeria hostage for their own selfish agenda. He and his minions should expect imminent defeat at the polls come 2027 general elections.
It is also noteworthy that throughout the years he has been in the corridors of power, Baba Ahmed never championed any coalition for the emergence of a single candidate either in his ward, local government or at the state level. However, because of his hatred and disdain for President Tinubu, he is hypocritically doing so against him just to supplant him with the most unpatriotic Northern Nigerian politician who promised to make Nigeria ungovernable if he did not get the presidency in 2011. Nigeria is still suffering from that statement credited to his leader in the form of banditry, killings, kidnappings and terrorism since he made that treasonable statement till date.
The most absurd and theatrical commentary is the golden silence of Baba Ahmed on the evil activities of Atiku using his hired goons in Washington DC in a desperate bid to stop the sale of arms to the Nigerian military. It is a sad commentary that they want to thwart the sale of arms by the American government to Nigeria. This unconscionable plan is to allow bandits and terrorists to kill more Nigerian citizens and security personnel in order to give President Tinubu a bad name, for the sponsors of terrorism to gain advantage.
Let it be known that as far as Arewa Voters Assembly is concerned, the only area sponsors of bandits have a pass mark is in sentiments, lies and evil plots against political opponents. We shall use everything in collaboration with other patriots to ensure that men of evil machinations against the progress and development of our country can never succeed in their warped obsession with power grab at all cost in 2027. And we will not allow them to get away with their obvious threat to the collective well-being of citizens, both Northerners and Southerners alike.
Signed:
Comrade Iliasu Musa
National Coordinator, AVA.
Comrade Paul Katuka
Secretary, AVA.