Oba Oladipo Olaitan, Chairman and Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation Afenifere, has launched a scathing assessment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration on the occasion of its third year in office, declaring the President unfit for a second term and urging Nigerians to remove him from power through the ballot in 2027.

Speaking with characteristic bluntness, the elder statesman did not mince his words.

“You are three years old in Aso Rock today. I am too old not to tell Nigerians the truth. You are a monumental failure,” Oba Olaitan said, directing his remarks squarely at the President.

A Nation “Bleeding,” Says Afenifere Leader

Olaitan traced the country’s current difficulties to the advent of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), arguing that conditions have deteriorated sharply under the current administration.

“The country has been bleeding since APC came to power, and the bleeding is now worst under President Tinubu, who seems to be clueless in insecurity matters and every economic parameter that can improve the lives of citizens. Let us call a spade a spade. He has failed woefully,” he stated.

Insecurity Has Turned “Farmlands Into Killing Fields”

The Afenifere chairman painted a grim picture of daily life for ordinary Nigerians, condemning what he described as the government’s failure to contain a worsening security crisis.

“Our people can no longer sleep with both eyes closed because of the unrelenting wave of insecurity, banditry, kidnapping, terrorism, and communal clashes that have turned farmlands into killing fields and turned hope into fear,” he said.

Economy at Its “Nadir”

Turning to the economy, Olaitan described the state of living conditions as dire, warning that the burden falls heaviest on the most vulnerable.

“The economy has been brought to its nadir. Prices of basic goods have gone beyond the reach of ordinary families. Our youths roam the streets without jobs, and our farmers and traders struggle daily just to survive,” he stated.

Tinubu “Destroying the Multi-Party System,” Elder Charges

Olaitan also raised alarm over what he characterised as deliberate efforts by the Presidency to fracture opposition movements, arguing the motivation was political self-preservation rooted in fear of accountability.

“Tinubu’s government breaks any identifiable opposition into fractious factions, while destroying the very basis of the multi-party system that brought him to power — because he knows he has failed woefully and is afraid of defeat, despite having 36 governors as we speak,” he charged.

“Suffering Is Not an Act of God”

In perhaps his most pointed remarks, the elder statesman rejected any suggestion that the hardships facing Nigerians were beyond human control, attributing them directly to policy choices made by the administration.

“It is only fools or religious sycophants that will say the suffering of many Nigerians is an act of God. It is the direct result of Tinubu’s total lack of knowledge and his weak economic team’s wrong choices — of neoliberal economic policies that put market forces and elite comfort above the welfare of the people,” Olaitan declared.

He further argued that the President was never prepared for the office he sought. “Tinubu was never prepared to be President — he just wants to be President. Vote him out. After all, over 80% of voters never voted for him in 2023. All he does is collect loans — loan after loan — with nothing to show for it, even though Nigeria is not a broke country as his government claims,” he added.

Oba Olaitan’s remarks represent one of the most forceful public condemnations of the Tinubu administration from within the traditional and Yoruba political establishment, and are expected to intensify the already heated conversation around the 2027 general elections.