Former LP Vice Presidential candidate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed believes President Bola Tinubu will not seek re-election in 2027 if he is truly a smart politician.

Baba-Ahmed stated this on Arise Television’s political program, ‘Prime Time,’ on Friday.

He claimed that Tinubu’s time is up, adding that everything is there for the president and the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, to see that they would lose in 2027.

“I expect Tinubu to throw in the towel if he is that smart politician that he turns out to be,” Baba-Datti said.

Baba-Datti also claimed that Tinubu started presenting presidential candidates in 2007, “culminating in his electoral heist in 2023.”

He said, “He skipped 2007 and jokingly made Atiku (presidential) candidate, made Ribadu and somebody 2011, made Buhari in 2015, Buhari won, and then skipped 2019 and they stole 2023.

“If he is that smart, everything is there for him that he’s going to lose 2027.”

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has given suspended Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State condition for peace.

Wike said he is open to forgiveness if Fubara apologizes over the political crisis in the state.

Wike and Fubara had been at loggerheads shortly after the latter became governor in 2023.

The crisis between the duo affected the state House of Assembly, a situation that led to factionalization of the legislature in the state.

As the political crisis started degenerating into insecurity challenges, President Bola Tinubu had declared a state of emergency.

Tinubu also suspended Fubara for six months while appointing a sole administrator.

However, addressing a media parley in Abuja, Wike said: “Has anybody approached anybody? I don’t like people who are hypocrites. I have told her to mention an elder in Rivers running around the governor who has taken steps to achieve peace?

“At the end of the day, if we don’t achieve anything, we will still go back to square one, which does not make sense.

“The day Mr President intervened, the assembly people immediately withdrew the impeachment notice. I’m open to forgiveness if he comes sincerely.”

Kogi State Police Command said it has commenced investigations into the alleged gunmen attack on the family house of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

The Police Command confirmed receiving a distress call that the senator’s family house in Obeiba-Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State, was under attack.

In a statement made available to journalists by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Aya Ovye on Friday, the Command said the investigation followed a distress call from Yakubu Ovanja, an aide to Senator Natasha, on Wednesday.

The statement said the information was lodged with the Divisional Police Officer attached to Okehi Division.

The statement said: “At about 0100hrs some hoodlums numbering about three armed with cutlasses invaded the family house of the said Senator and damaged some front window glasses.

“Immediately the information was received by the DPO, he mobilized his men in for on the spot assessment where he met a young man name Michael Akpoti in the house who narrated how the hoodlums used cutlasses to damaged the said building while trying to gain access into the house before he raised alarm which made the hoodlums to flee.

“In view of the above, the Commissioner of Police has directed the deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of Criminal Investigation Department to commence immediate and discrete investigation into the alleged attack to ascertain its cause with the view to apprehending the perpetrators and bringing them to justice.”