The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of using the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari as a “political tool to launder its battered image”.
The opposition party described the special federal executive
council (FEC) meeting held in Buhari’s honour as “political theatre”.
In a statement on Friday, Bolaji Abdullahi, interim national
publicity secretary of the ADC, said the FEC tribute was a “calculated PR
stunt”.
He said Yusuf, Buhari’s son, was “compelled to perform
gratitude in front of the cameras”.
Abdullahi said the same government that spent over a year
blaming Buhari for Nigeria’s economic woes is now trying 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.”
The party’s spokesperson alleged that what transpired at the
FEC meeting was part of a broader plan to capitalise on Buhari’s death,
especially to win sympathy 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 said no amount of public relations spin will
salvage what it described as “a government that has behaved, in the last two
years, like an army of occupation”.
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