Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has criticized the reception organized for President Bola Tinubu following his return to Nigeria after spending about a month abroad.
Sowore made the remarks in a post on X, accompanying the statement with a video showing the president being welcomed at the airport.
In his post, Sowore alleged that Nigeria had repeatedly been used as “health insurance” for presidents he described as “sickly and worn-out.”
He referenced the administrations of former Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that similar situations had occurred under their governments and were now being repeated under Tinubu.
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“We’ve been here before: Nigeria is repeatedly used as health insurance for sickly and worn-out presidents, who are then packaged and presented to the public in staged airport ceremonies while the same failed performances are repeated and the country is further destroyed,” Sowore wrote.
“The same actors during the Umaru Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari administrations and now Tinubu,” he added.
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Sowore also criticised those involved in the reception, arguing that Nigerians were being expected to move on without questioning the circumstances surrounding the president’s absence.
“No shame, no regrets and they want you to move on as though nothing is wrong,” he wrote.
The comments have added to public discussion surrounding President Tinubu’s overseas stay and his return to the country, with Sowore using the occasion to renew his criticism of successive Nigerian administrations.
