Former Political Adviser to President Bola Tinubu, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has dismissed the insinuation that his resignation was a gang-up against the Southern presidency.
Naija News reports that Baba-Ahmed, in an interview on TVC, clarified he resigned from Tinubu’s government because there was not much to do as a Political Adviser to the President.
Baba-Ahmed also debunked reports of a strained relationship between Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima, stressing that their chemistry was excellent when he resigned.
He said: “No gang up of the North against the South, I resigned because I wasn’t happy about the job and when you are not happy about a job you leave.
“They give you a job and its description and they tell you what to do. You go there expecting to do the work and when you are not doing the work, you have two choices, sit there for four years waiting for something to happen while collecting salaries in a nice office or you leave. I chose the latter because there wasn’t much to do.
“It has nothing to do with northerner, the Vice President has always had the potential for being idle.
“The Vice President has only two jobs defined they are called spear tyres and if you are unfortunate not to have a spear tyres at the precise time you need it, then you are in trouble.
“Most vice presidents have the potential to be idle depending on the disposition and the chemistry with the president.
“When I left, the chemistry was excellent but for me, I have done a lot in my life, I was a public officer for almost 40 years and I went into this administration on the assurances that there would be work for somebody like a political adviser but I found out that there wasn’t much to do.”
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