Investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo has sharply criticized Chief Bola Tinubu’s administration, describing the past year as a period of “renewed hopelessness” for Nigeria.
In a post on his official X handle, Soyombo lamented what he perceives as the nation’s descent into darkness following Tinubu’s ascension to the presidency.
Soyombo accused Tinubu of securing his position through corrupt practices, including the distribution of “dollar gifts” to party members and employing tactics such as voter intimidation, violence, and ballot box snatching.
He further condemned the administration for fostering ethnocentric voting and engaging in “amala politicking.”
He stated, “Renewed hopelessness.
“This day last year, darkness enveloped Nigeria with the ascension of Bola Tinubu to the presidency via a combination of dollar gifts to party men who sold their futures for a few morsels of cheese, voter intimidation, violence, thuggery, ballot box snatching, ethnocentric voting and amala politicking.
“One year on, Tinubu’s presidential legacy is hallmarked by economic regression, rising insecurity, increased unemployment, voracious taxation, inflation and poorly-thought-out policies.
“To cap it all, his government has in record time emerged the most draconian in Nigeria’s democratic history. Never has Nigeria witnessed such brazen, baseless, barefaced and shameless harassment, abduction and detention of journalists.
“Nigeria is slowly restoring the dark days of the military era, only this time this muzzling of the media and state capture is occurring in a pretend democracy shepherded by a man who supposedly fought the military in his heyday.
“A horrible time to be Nigerian,” he added.
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