2027: Tinubu’s govt desperately exploiting Buhari’s death – ADC warns

The leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the President Bola Tinubu-led administration of exploiting the death of former president Muhammadu Buhari.

The ADC in a statement issued by its interim national publicity secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi said Tinubu’s government is using the death of the former president to whitewash its battered image to Nigerians.

The ADC also criticised the special Federal Executive Council meeting held in honour of the late former president by Tinubu’s government.

According to the party, the publicised appearance of Buhari’s grieving son, Yusuf, is “a calculated PR stunt by an unpopular government.”

“The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called out President Tinubu’s government for what it describes as a cynical and opportunistic attempt to exploit the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari for political gains,” Abdullahi said.

Abdullahi said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Tinubu’s administration had spent over a year blaming Buhari for the country’s economic troubles.

He added that it is only surprising that the same critics now perform public grief in a bid to whitewash their battered image, especially in the North and among Buhari loyalists.

“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,” he noted.

He further called on Nigerians to be wary of the moves by the Tinubu administration to control the happenings in the polity using Buhari’s death.

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

Nigerians remember that since taking office, the Tinubu administration and its officials have launched a relentless campaign to disown their predecessor’s policies. They have blamed Buhari for everything , accused him of fiscal recklessness, and claimed to have inherited a broken economy—not from the opposition, but from their own party’s former leader.

“But now that it suits their political agenda, they seek to recast themselves as defenders of the late President’s legacy, pretending to give him in death, the honour they denied him while he was alive,” he added.