2027: “During my NYSC you were an aspirant” – Datti blasts Atiku’s presidential move

Former Labour Party vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba Ahmed, has revealed that Atiku Abubakar started nursing presidential ambition as far back as his NYSC days.

Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday, Baba Ahmed called on Atiku to step aside and allow younger Nigerians with fresh ideas take over the political space.

According to him, Atiku’s style of politics is expensive and discouraging young politicians who genuinely want to solve Nigeria’s problems.

“When I was doing my NYSC, Baba Atiku was an aspirant and in 2018, we contested primaries together. In 2023 we contested again, I as a vice president elsewhere when his vice president had left him. For God’s sake in 2027 again? he said.

Baba Ahmed insisted that Nigeria urgently needs a new generation of leaders and that they already exist.

“There is the need for a new generation of Nigerian leaders and they do exist. A whole new generation is waiting for a new leader to lead them to a new party,” he added.

He also criticised the political system, describing it as hostile to young, capable Nigerians.

“There are people capable of solving Nigerian problems, but they are discouraged by the expensive, difficult, treacherous system full of godfathers and bad promises.”

Atiku Abubakar recently dumped the PDP for the African Democratic Congress, ADC, a platform he plans to use to contest the 2027 presidential election.

The ADC also houses political heavyweights such as Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in 2023, and Chibuike Amaechi, former Rivers State governor.

Datti Baba Ahmed’s comments have reignited conversations about age, political recycling, and whether Nigeria is truly ready for new leadership.

With 2027 approaching, the battle between old political faces and a new generation is clearly heating up.