The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has criticised the reception accorded President Bola Tinubu following his return to Nigeria after spending about a month abroad.
Sowore made his position known in a post on X while sharing a video showing Tinubu being welcomed at the airport.
The AAC candidate alleged that Nigeria had repeatedly been used as “health insurance” for presidents whom he described as “sickly and worn-out.”
“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.
He compared Tinubu’s administration with those of former Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that a similar pattern had occurred under the three administrations.
“The same actors during the Umaru Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari administrations and now Tinubu,” he added.
Sowore further criticised those involved in the reception, accusing them of expecting Nigerians to move on without questioning the circumstances surrounding the President’s prolonged absence.
“No shame, no regrets and they want you to move on as though nothing is wrong,” he wrote.
