African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate for the 2027 election, Omoyele Sowore, has delivered a scathing assessment of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, declaring that it deserves an “F9 across all parameters” after three years in office.
Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Tuesday, August 4, Sowore said the government had failed in virtually every critical sector, including security, electricity, education, healthcare, food security and the economy.
The publisher of Sahara Reporters argued that there was little or nothing the administration could point to as an achievement.
“Nothing, because I rate the government from a number of parameters, and one of it is security. You know where we are—failed.
“We’re talking about the power sector; the national grid has collapsed more than anything else in this country in the last three years.
“Talking about education: we are now asking our children to borrow to go to school.
“We’re talking about healthcare: even the president doesn’t go to Nigerian hospitals.
“You’re talking about food security: Nigeria is on the list of countries that is regarded as hungry to the point that the FAO… the Food and Agriculture Organization… considers Nigeria as one of the places you have to send food to in 2026 to feed its people.
“You’re talking about the economy: we have grown the number of poor people from 70 million about three years ago to 140 million. That doesn’t look good.
“We’re talking about multidimensionally poor people. So, you tell me, if you look at all these parameters, where I can fit even a good comment, where I can even grade them ‘F’. I can’t find it,” Sowore said.
Drawing from his background as an academic, Sowore said Tinubu would not have remained in his classroom if he were one of his students.
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“As I usually say, being a former professor or teacher—professors are what they call teachers in the US, university teachers—I would just ask the administration to leave. That would have solved it.
“But if Tinubu were to be in my class, I’d just ask him to go and find another school. Or go and learn…” he said.
During the interview, the programme’s presenter observed that Sowore’s comments appeared similar to recent remarks by Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate Peter Obi, who had suggested that Tinubu should retire from politics.
Sowore, however, rejected the comparison, insisting that his position was different.
“No, I’m not asking him to retire. I’m asking him to go back to school,” he said.
Sowore will represent the AAC in the 2027 presidential election, while President Tinubu is seeking a second term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).