June 19, 2025
Lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi, has criticized the president Bola Tinubu led government for it insensibility and attempts to gag free speech.
Speak on Thursday in an interview during Channels Television’s Morning Brief, Farotimi, said it is becoming increasingly dangerous to speak under the current administration.
The former spokesperson for the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election campaign, said it is difficult to categorically say if Tinubu’s administration is tilting towards military dictatorship or democracy.
According to him, Nigerians are not feeling the impact of democracy as projected by President Bola Tinubu.
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“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 criminalize 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” .
Farotimi’s comment is coming at the backdrop of President Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech on June 12 at the joint sitting of the national assembly, he said was assured that the country’s democracy is not invisible but alive.
