Independence Day: Your speech turned celebration to lamentation – Dele Momodu to Tinubu

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has criticised President Bola Tinubu over his nationwide broadcast to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary.
In a post on his verified X handle on Thursday, Momodu said the President’s speech turned Independence Day into a day of lamentation.
He said he was particularly concerned by Tinubu’s analogy of Nigeria as a cancer patient who had survived on painkillers before his emergence as a surgeon.
According to him, the President was expected to stabilise Nigeria and not metastasise it into stage-four cancer.
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