{"id":71016,"date":"2025-07-19T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71016"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:03:35","slug":"presidency-slams-adc-over-buharis-death-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/19\/presidency-slams-adc-over-buharis-death-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Slams ADC Over Buhari\u2019s Death Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency has strongly criticized the African Democratic Congress (ADC), for accusing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s administration of politicizing the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the claim as \u201cshameless\u201d and \u201cobnoxious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, accused the ADC of seeking relevance by \u201cdisrespecting Buhari and dancing on his grave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the ADC, not this government, exploiting Buhari\u2019s death for attention. From Atiku and El-Rufai\u2019s choreographed visit to Daura to this disgraceful press release, the ADC has shown itself to be utterly shameless,\u201d Dare said.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed the ADC\u2019s claims as \u201claughable tantrums\u201d from a party facing an identity crisis, while defending Tinubu\u2019s \u201cdignified and befitting\u201d conduct during the mourning period.<\/p>\n<p>Dare also highlighted Tinubu\u2019s key achievements, including naira stabilization, increased oil production, 60% rise in FAAC allocations, rural electrification, and major infrastructure projects like the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and Sokoto-Badagry Road.<\/p>\n<p>He also cited the student loan scheme, new regional commissions, and the national consumer credit program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are tangible, measurable results. That is leadership,\u201d Dare stated.<\/p>\n<p>He described the ADC as a struggling political outfit latching onto baseless criticisms, urging Nigerians to ignore its \u201cpolitical noise\u201d and focus on Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; The Presidency has strongly criticized the African Democratic Congress (ADC), for accusing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s administration of politicizing the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the claim as \u201cshameless\u201d and \u201cobnoxious.\u201d In a statement on Saturday, Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, accused the ADC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71018,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71016\/revisions\/71018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}