Friday, April 4, 2025 - Former spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has resigned as the political adviser to President Bola Tinubu.
Daily Trust reports that sources in the presidency confirmed
on Thursday that Hakeem Baba-Ahmed tendered his resignation about two weeks
ago.
According to the report, Baba-Ahmed did not provide details
of the reasons for his decision; he only stated that it was on personal
grounds.
It was unclear whether the presidency has accepted his
resignation.
Baba-Ahmed was appointed Special Adviser on Political
Matters in the Office of Vice President Kashim Shettima in September 2023.
Baba-Ahmed’s role in the presidency attracted criticism at
certain points, including the one from the current Minister of State for
Defence, Bello Mohammed Matawalle.
Matawalle had appeared to have taken an aim at Baba-Ahmed,
when he said northern appointees must not remain silent in the face of
intimidation or misrepresentation of the Tinubu administration.
The comments came after Baba-Ahmed criticised Matawalle’s
dismissal of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) as a “political paperweight”.
The position taken by the minister was in reaction to the
group’s statement that the North made a mistake voting for Tinubu in 2023.
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