Tinubu’s Government Exploiting Buhari’s Death For Politics –ADC

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has slammed President Bola Tinubu’s administration for making use of the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari as a “political tool to launder its battered image”.

The opposition party said that the special federal executive council (FEC) meeting held in Buhari’s honour was “political theatre”.

In a statement on Friday, Bolaji Abdullahi, interim national publicity secretary of the ADC, stated that the FEC tribute was a “calculated PR stunt”.

According to him, Yusuf, Buhari’s son, was “compelled to perform gratitude in front of the cameras”.

Abdullahi stated that the same government that spent over a year berating  Buhari for Nigeria’s economic woes now tries to appropriate his legacy for political survival.

“This administration has consistently distanced itself from Buhari’s policies, especially on subsidy removal, the economy, and public sector governance,” the statement reads.

“Now, it seeks to align with the very legacy it spent months tearing down.

“Nigerians must ask, what kind of government uses the private pain of a bereaved family to varnish its own public image?

“The choreographed tribute at FEC was not a demonstration of genuine respect. It was a calculated public relations stunt by an unpopular government, carefully stage-managed to distract Nigerians from its deepening failures.

“You cannot spend months discrediting a man’s legacy only to turn around and perform grief for the cameras.”

Addullahi claimed that what happened at the FEC meeting was part of a broader plan to capitalise on Buhari’s death, especially to win support in the north and among Buhari loyalists.

“Earlier this week, we warned the late president’s family of this plan,” Abdullahi said.

“What we witnessed at FEC was only the beginning. The exploitation of a mourning son, compelled to perform gratitude before the cameras, is unconscionable and must be condemned by all decent people.

“Grief is not a campaign strategy. Let the family mourn their father in peace.”

Abdullahi stated that no amount of public relations spin will change what it described as “a government that has behaved, in the last two years, like an army of occupation”.

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