Nigerian lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi has lamented that it is easy to forget the kind of government the administration of President Bola Tinubu is practising.
According to him, it is becoming increasingly difficult to determine whether Tinubu’s administration favours military dictatorship or democracy.
He shared his concerns on Thursday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Morning Brief.
Farotimi stated that Nigerians are not feeling the breeze of democracy as projected by Tinubu, stating that it has now become dangerous to speak under the administration.
He said, “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 criminalise 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.”