Thursday, June 19, 2025 - Nigerian lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi has raised the alarm that it is becoming increasingly dangerous to speak under the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Farotimi stated this on Thursday in an interview during Channels Television’s
Morning Brief.
The former spokesperson for the 2023 presidential campaign
of the Labour Party said it is difficult to pinpoint if Tinubu’s administration
leans towards military dictatorship or democracy.
According to him, Nigerians are not feeling the breeze of
democracy as projected by Tinubu.
“In the administration of Tinubu, there is the ambiguity of
whether we are in a military dictatorship or a democracy. It is very easy to
forget exactly what kind of government we have in place. The level of
depression of free speech and the readiness to criminalise every civic
disagreement.
“It is becoming increasingly dangerous to speak; I don’t
know how much of this is traceable to the President or his temperament.
Unfortunately, when the fish rots, it begins from the head. There is always
somebody on whose desktop the buck must stop. The reality is that Nigeria is
more repressed than it is in this moment. Nigerians are feeling the kind of
breeze the president is projecting,” he stated.
This comes as President Tinubu, in his Democracy Day speech
on June 12, said he was assured that the country’s democracy is not invisible
but alive.
“Our democracy is not invincible, but it is alive,” he
stated.
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