The African Democratic Congress (ADC) said after blaming former President Muhammadu Buhari for the country’s economic problems, President Bola Tinubu is now exploiting Buhari’s death for political gains.
ADC in a statement by the interim National Publicity Secretary Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, described the appearance of Buhari’s grieving son, Yusuf, at a special Federal Executive Council (FEC) as “a calculated PR stunt by an unpopular government.”
The party said the purpose is to launder Tinubu’s battered image, especially in the North and among Buhari loyalists.
It recalled how Tinubu’s government previously distanced itself from Buhari’s policies, especially on fuel subsidy, the economy, and public sector management, “only to now attempt to cloak itself in the very legacy it once denounced.”
“This is hypocritical and in bad taste. You cannot spend months discrediting a man’s legacy only to turn around and perform grief for the cameras.
“It is equally troubling that the young man, Mr. Yusuf Buhari, a private citizen and grieving son, was pulled into the political theatre of a Federal Executive Council meeting, just days after burying his father.
“Nigerians must ask, what kind of government uses the private pain of a bereaved family to varnish its own public image?”
ADC told the president that grief is not a campaign strategy, and advised him to allow the late president’s family to mourn their father in peace rather than being dragged into political circus show.
