African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has issued a scathing assessment of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, declaring that the government deserves an “F9 across all parameters” after three years in office.
Appearing on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Tuesday, the Sahara Reporters publisher asserted that he could not find a single positive achievement in the administration’s record. Drawing on his experience as a university lecturer, Sowore quipped that if the President were in his classroom, he would be expelled for poor academic performance.
“As I usually say, being a former professor or teacher… I would just ask the administration to leave,” Sowore said. “But if Tinubu were to be in my class, I’d just ask him to go and find another school. Or go and learn…”
When the interviewer suggested his comments mirrored recent calls by Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi for Tinubu to retire, Sowore quickly dismissed the comparison. “No, I’m not asking him to retire. I’m asking him to go back to school,” he clarified.
Systematically detailing what he termed total governance failure, the opposition leader pointed to worsening national security and repeated collapses of the national power grid over the last three years. On education and healthcare, he highlighted student reliance on loans and noted that even the President seeks medical treatment outside Nigerian hospitals.
Sowore also criticised the administration’s socio-economic indicators, noting that the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) listed Nigeria among nations requiring emergency food aid in 2026. He further highlighted that multidimensional poverty had surged, doubling from 70 million to 140 million citizens over the three-year period.
“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 concluded.
Sowore has declared his intention to run for the presidency under the AAC banner in 2027, where he is expected to challenge President Tinubu, who will be seeking a second term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).