- North Will Decide Where It Stands Within Next Six Months- Ex Aide
- Tinubu Utterly Incapable Of Tackling Deepening Security Crisis- Atiku
- Nigeria Bleeding From Savagery, Brutality Never Witnessed In Our History- Kukah
The path to re-election for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the forthcoming 2027 Presidential Election keeps getting rougher each day
if latest developments are anything to go by.
The Matrix Newspaper has gathered that the Northern region of the country is set to unveiled it’s path within the next six months in an apparent indication that the President might have lost the support of the North.
In a now viral video, a former aide of President Tinubu and a key stakeholder in the North has disclosed that the North is crying under Tinubu’s administration and will be making it’s position clear soon.
The aide, a former Special Adviser on Political Matters to President Tinubu, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed disclosed that the North will decide its political direction because the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari made the region wiser.
Making the remark in a viral video, the former presidential aide said nobody can become Nigeria’s President without the support of the North.
Baba-Ahmed said: “In the next six months, the North will decide where it stands. If the rest of the country wants to join us, fine. If not, we will go our own way.
“One thing is clear, nobody can become President of Nigeria without northern support.”
He lamented the state of the nation and urged northerners to resist divisive and deceptive politicians ahead of the next general elections.
“We want a government that understands our problems and can address them. After Buhari’s eight years, we became wiser. Now, we are in another government, and we are still crying. Is crying all we know how to do?”
Baba-Ahmed lamented that the North suffered greatly during the Boko Haram insurgency, which affected Muslims, Christians, Fulani, Baju and others – highlighting the need for unity.
Before Buhari became President, Boko Haram was bombing mosques, churches, Abuja, and Lagos. That was a time northerners had to unite.
“Today, no politician can just show up and expect northerners to fall in line. Who are you?” he questioned.
While the President is fighting an acceptance battle from the North, things are not getting better as his opponents are tightening the noose around his neck over the rising insecurity in the country.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has bombed the President for remaining in Europe as insecurity engulfs the country he leads.
It would be recalled that Tinubu departed Nigeria for France on a two-week “working visit”.
In his absence, there has been a surge in killings and abductions by gunmen in several parts of the country, notably in Plateau and Benue states.
His continued absence from the country in the face of the killings has drawn flak from opposition leaders who reprimanded him.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Abubakar claimed that Tinubu simply does not care.
He cited cases of political leaders who cut short their trips to attend to urgent matters back home.
“The Tinubu administration has proven, time and again, to be utterly incapable, wholly incompetent, and completely devoid of any coherent ideas for tackling Nigeria’s deepening security crisis,” Abubakar said.
“This is not just my position — it is a growing consensus among political opposition leaders, respected security experts, and even members within the ruling party who, though too timid to speak publicly, confess this uncomfortable truth behind closed doors.
“The blood of innocent Nigerians continues to be spilled with appalling regularity — most recently in the Logo and Gbagir communities of Ukum LGA in Benue State.
“Yet, the Tinubu presidency remains disturbingly indifferent, displaying neither urgency nor the basic decency of public empathy.
“Leadership demands presence. In 2016, President Barack Obama cut short an important diplomatic visit to return home after five police officers were killed in a lone gunman attack.
“In 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa abandoned a state visit to Egypt to return to South Africa amid an electricity crisis.
“Even U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, heavily criticised for fleeing to Mexico during a deadly winter storm in Texas, eventually returned and acknowledged his mistake.
“In our own history, President Goodluck Jonathan returned from Equatorial Guinea in 2014 following a deadly bomb blast in Abuja.
“That is the expected minimum in moments of national trauma.
“Yet President Bola Tinubu, incapable of solving Nigeria’s worsening insecurity, chooses instead to gallivant across Europe — governing Nigeria in absentia as if from a holiday perch.
“If he cannot act, the least he can do is show up. If he cannot lead with empathy, he should at least attempt to perform it. Nigeria is bleeding. Nigerians are dying. The president is nowhere to be found.
“An inept administration may not suddenly discover competence. But we will not stop calling it out. If Tinubu cannot deliver safety and dignity to Nigerians, the very least he can do is pretend to care.”
Abubakar said Tinubu must prove that he cares for all Nigerians — regardless of their ethnic, political or religious affiliation.
Meanwhile, Matthew Kukah, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has asked Tinubu to rescue Nigerians from the “cross of evil”.
In his 2025 Easter message titled ‘Mr President: Please bring us down from this cross’, Kukah said the country is bleeding from savagery and brutality “never witnessed in the history of our dear country”.
“Every day, innocent citizens are kidnapped and held under the most inhuman conditions,” he said.
“A dark pall of death hangs languidly from north to south. It is impossible to find a home, a family, or a community that has not been caught in the cusp of this savagery.
“Mr President, Nigeria is reaching a breaking point. The nation is gradually becoming a huge national morgue. With a greater sense of urgency, hasten to bring us down from this cross of evil.”
The bishop said while Tinubu did not erect the cross, he must act to stop the bleeding.
“Nigerians have been dangling and bleeding on this cross of pain and mindless suffering for too long,” he said.
“A culture of cynicism and self-doubt over our capacity to secure peace for ourselves pervades our land. Indeed, a majority of our citizens feel that there is no hope in sight.”
Kukah said Christians must still hold on to hope and look up to the cross as a source of strength and renewal.
“These times of great suffering should be times of hope, hope beyond human imagination — a hope which, as St. Paul assures us, does not disappoint,” he said.
He noted that Pope Francis had declared 2025 as the Year of Hope, urging Christians to see themselves as “pilgrims of hope” amid the harshness of the world.
“The road to our collective discouragement in Nigeria has been laid by marauders, murderers, savages and ravenous predators who threaten to overrun our nation,” he said.
“Mr President, immediately rid our dear country of these forces of darkness and bring us down from this cross of cynicism.”
Kukah also raised concern about economic hardship in the country, stating that hunger and sickness “stalk the land”.
He acknowledged the removal of subsidies but warned that palliatives are not sustainable.
“Mere palliative distribution diminishes the dignity of citizens. Make food security a fundamental human right to all citizens,” he said.
He also referenced past confessions by public officers who admitted to bringing in armed elements to gain power, warning that the insecurity they unleashed is now threatening the foundation of the country.
“The bandits have not only become embedded in every sphere of our lives, they threaten to destroy all that holds our communities together. We now hang on the cross at the mercy of these forces of darkness,” he said.
Kukah said rising insecurity is eroding public trust in government.
“Right now, frustration has penetrated every spectrum of our society especially as the government and its security agencies seem to have largely become spectators in the dance of death that has overtaken our country,” he added.
“Is the persistence of the insecurity a statement of the lack of capacity of our men and women in uniform, or is it evidence that those at the top are reaping the fruits of funding their own war machine?
“In other words, are Nigerians lambs being sacrificed to an unknown god?”
He ended by reminding Christians that the resurrection of Jesus empowers them to drive out the darkness in society.
“We are the light of the world, a city set on a hill,” he said.
“We are equipped with the light of Christ to drive out the darkness that threatens to engulf our country. Let us collectively renew our commitment and hope for building a society after the mind of our creator.”
