The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the decision of the African Democratic Party (ADC) to politicise a solemn moment of national grief was unacceptable.
It maintained that the party’s reference to heartfelt gestures and activities of the government in honour of the late President as “exploitation” was beyond the pale.
TheHintsNews reports that the ADC had accused President Bola Tinubu of exploiting the late President Muhammadu Buhari’s death for political gains.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka in a statement issued Saturday noted that the party’s criticism of the dignified state burial accorded the late President was as spooky as it was unconscionable.
He insisted that Tinubu showed compassion and a deep sense of loss of a friend, close political associate and predecessor.
Morka noted that the President also demonstrated patriotism and leadership by overseeing and participating in honouring the late President who gave so much to the nation.
Morka said Nigerians must remain wary of the ADC and its band of political marauders prowling for power with nothing to offer Nigerians except peddling falsehood and vilifying a President who is hard at work for the transformation and progress of our nation.
He said: “Again, the ADC has showcased itself to be without any understanding of customary state practice, and lacking empathy and essential humanity.
“It has cut its own portrait as a party of mindless political dregs, a dump of Nigeria’s internally displaced politicians, ready to do or say anything in chase of attention but sinking itself deeper in quicksand of ignominy.
“That the ADC is blowing up over the state burial of the late President only reflects the party’s duplicity and insensitivity.
“What would the ADC have had President Tinubu do? Deny the late President Buhari the honour of a befitting state burial? Withhold empathy and support for the bereaved former first family? As a party that can begrudge the dead, the ADC must surely disdain the living.”
“It falls far outside the widest and wildest stretch of justifiable opposition politics. Clearly, the party and its villainous leaders have allowed their humanity to be corroded by desperation for inordinate and self-serving power,” Morka noted.