
FORMER spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has resigned as the political adviser to President Bola Tinubu.
Fusion chronicle 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.
Fusion chronicle recalls that 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.
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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.