Tinubu will win re-election — armchair theories can’t stop him, Sunday Dare tells Datti Baba-Ahmed

Sunday Dare, the special adviser to the president on media and public communication, says no political “conspiracies” can prevent the re-election of President Bola Tinubu.

Dare was responding to a recent statement by Datti Baba-Ahmed, former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election.

Baba-Ahmed had said Tinubu’s time in office is over and that the signs of his impending electoral defeat are becoming increasingly clear.

“I expect Tinubu to throw in the towel if he is that smart politician,” he said.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Dare described Baba-Ahmed’s remark as “flawed, devoid of reason and empty”.

“His political logic is not fit for even a first-year political science class, and even then, they will query his postulations,” the statement reads.

“He chose to base his political calculations on President Bola Tinubu not winning a second term given his antecedents and because Nigerians will decide at the polls, among other things. He conveniently avoided the substance of performance and capacity.

“Unfortunately, he chose to walk into a lane he was unfamiliar with and chose to confront a politician he is no match for.

“Politics is not for theorists or the faint-hearted nor the parochial. Politics is for those with a solid track record of performance, the courageous, far-sighted and gifted. Qualities he clearly lacks.

“Another thing Baba Ahmed lacks is the capacity for honesty because that is the only way to describe his claim that President

“Tinubu is not fulfilling his campaign promises. The positive impacts  of the tough choices President Tinubu has made in the interest of the country are already being felt, and the economic indices are there to prove this.”

Dare said the International Monetary Fund recently applauded Tinubu for his economic reforms, noting that they have put the economy in a better position.

The presidential aide said Tinubu “will win comfortably in 2027 no matter the volume of armchair theories and political conspiracies”.

He said Tinubu’s performance “will clear the path” for his re-election.

“So, instead of running the circuit of television networks to peddle his poorly thought-out conjectures, Baba-Ahmed should seriously consider how to rehabilitate his failed political career, an intervention he urgently needs”.

Dare asked Baba-Ahmed to either keep quiet or leave politics for those “equipped” for the “complicated art”.