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Human rights lawyer, Maduabuchi Idam, on Tuesday criticized President Bola Tinubu for declaring a national holiday in honour of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Idam questioned whether Tinubu’s decision was politically motivated, suggesting it might be an attempt to win over Buhari’s northern support base and curry favour with the region.
Buhari, who once served as Nigeria’s president, passed away in London on Tuesday and is scheduled to be laid to rest today in his hometown of Daura, Katsina State.
In response, Tinubu’s government announced a nationwide public holiday to commemorate Buhari’s passing.
But Idam argued that the move appeared less about genuine mourning and more like a calculated political gesture aimed at gaining political mileage under the guise of national sympathy.
In a statement, Idam said: “As a dispassionate thinker, I couldn’t but wonder why the declaration of a public holiday has become necessary to honour the death of the late former president, when there are many ways that he can be sufficiently mourned by the nation without needing to halt the economy for the purpose.
“In advanced climes, the highest honour the loss of a president can attract on the day of his burial is that federal flags would be flown at half-staff over federal facilities, and designates or a free mail delivery as a mark of honour and remembrance for the demise of the president.
“I am even surprised that President Tinubu’s administration, which has serially criticised and accused the late ex-president of leaving the country in a bad shape, has now arrogated to itself the position of a chief mourner who not only cries within degrees of control but hysterically rolls on the floor with both phlegm and mucus protruding from both nose and lungs.
“Except it is a careful political attempt to curry the sympathy or blessings of the Northern voters, knowing the bloc of votes associated with ex-President Buhari’s name, I will see the public holiday declaration as irritable or a needless show of honour, given that lowering the national flags at half-staff over federal facilities and designates should be honourable enough to mark his memory.”
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