A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday said Nigeria’s democracy is thinner under President Bola Tinubu than during the military regime.

Ologbondiyan said Nigeria has become a theatre of absurdity during the 11 years of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in power.

Posting on X, the former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, noted that Nigerians are determined to vote out Tinubu’s gruesome APC.

He wrote: “In the eleven years of APC, our country, Nigeria, has become the theatre of the absurd.

“Nothing demonstrates this like the celebration of 2026 Democracy Day.

“@officialABAT is the chief preacher of the values of democracy of this year’s celebration.

“Unfortunately, under his watch, the democratic space has become thinner than the situation we witnessed under the military rule.

“In his own party, the APC, emergence of party candidates are inconclusive, weeks after the exercise was held.

“Some of the other opposing parties are not sure of their status with elections few months ahead.

“Nothing seems certain in the political landscape except that @officialABAT will contest the 2027 presidential elections while the presidential candidates of other parties will be held down with sponsored in-fighting.

“It is a contradiction to be preaching democracy and also closing the democratic space all together.

“Happy Democracy Day to majority of Nigerians, who though may be silent now, but are determined to vote out the gruesome APC at the nick of time, come 2027.”

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has lambasted President Bola Tinubu, urging him to accept his failure, and stop making promises after three years in office.

This is contained in a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Friday.

The party also blasted the National Assembly for going on recess on democracy day.

It slammed the President for chosing to speak like a candidate contesting for election rather than a leader who has been in the saddle for more than three years.

According to the party, what Nigerians heard today was not the speech of a government entering its fourth year in office.

“The president should own his failure. His democracy day speech was like that of a candidate seeking another mandate.

“Throughout the address, the President asked Nigerians to believe once again that prosperity is just around the corner, that economic reforms will soon bear fruit, that jobs are coming, that security is improving.

“The question Nigerians should be asking is simple: after three years of President Tinubu and eleven years of APC rule, why are we still talking about promises?

“The APC came to power in 2015 promising to tackle insecurity, revive the economy, create jobs, reduce poverty, strengthen institutions, and improve the quality of life of Nigerians. Eleven years later, these same issues continue to dominate the government’s speeches.

“The fact that the President is still making many of the same promises that brought the APC to power is itself an admission that those promises remain unfulfilled,” the ADC said.