The African Democratic Congress on Friday described President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day address as an admission that the All Progressives Congress has failed to deliver on its promises after more than a decade in power.
The opposition party said Tinubu’s speech was “another campaign speech masquerading as a presidential address,” arguing that Nigerians deserved concrete results rather than fresh assurances on economic recovery, security and job creation.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said the President’s address raised fundamental questions about the performance of both his administration and the APC government since the party assumed power in 2015.
“President Tinubu’s address was long on promises and short on answers. What Nigerians heard today was not the speech of a government entering its fourth year in office. It was the speech of a candidate seeking another mandate,” the party said.
The ADC’s reaction came shortly after Tinubu addressed the nation as part of activities marking Democracy Day, a national holiday commemorating the June 12, 1993 presidential election widely regarded as Nigeria’s freest and fairest poll and won by the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola.
