The African Democratic Congress,ADC, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of exploiting the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari for political gain.

In a statement by the interim national publicity secretary of the ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Friday, the party described the recent tributes by the Federal Government to the late president as “hypocritical, opportunistic, and carefully stage-managed.”

The opposition coalition party alleged the special expanded Federal Executive Council’s meeting in honour of Mr Buhari was part of a calculated public relations stunt designed to whitewash the government’s image, especially in the North.

“The choreographed Federal Executive Council tribute, complete with a publicised appearance by our late president’s grieving son, 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 the administration’s deepening failures and to rewrite history while the nation mourns. This is hypocritical and in bad taste,” Mr. Abdullahi said.

Mr Abdullahi argued that the presence of Yusuf Buhari, a private citizen still grieving the loss of his father, should never have been used “as a prop in a political show.”

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

He recalled that the current administration had consistently distanced itself from Mr Buhari’s policies since assuming office in 2023.

Mr Abdullahi said, 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.

“For months, the official stance of the Tinubu presidency was that Nigeria’s hardship was Buhari’s fault. The message was clear: Buhari was the problem; Tinubu was the solution. 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.

“Nevertheless, we are confident that Nigerians can see through their grand deceit. No public relations stunt can save a government that has behaved in the last two years like an army of occupation.

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