Debo Adedayo, often known as Mr Macaroni, a celebrity skit creator, and Omoyele Sowere, a human rights activist, have backed a corps member who dubbed President Bola Tinubu a “terrible” president.
According to reports, a female corps member serving in Lagos State complained about the country’s hardships in a TikTok video that went viral on social media.
In the face of difficulty, the young woman bemoaned the high cost of food, transportation, and the silence of the populace.
“We should start calling out the government. For example, Tinubu, you are a terrible person. What are you doing to help our economy?
“If a lot of Nigerians come out and start speaking about what we are going through, maybe changes will be made in the government,” she said in the video.
The female corps member said in a different footage that she was intimidated by the management of the Lagos National Youth Service (NYSC) because she had recorded a video denouncing the country’s hardships.
On his X handle on Sunday, Macaroni responded to the purported threat by cautioning NYSC management not to threaten the female corps member.
He wrote: “To the DG, Coordinators and every official of the NYSC!!! You cannot threaten, intimidate or victimize any corper for expressing their view on the performance of the president. They are citizens with rights! The president is in office to serve the people and every Nigerian, Corper or not has the right to hold their Leaders accountable!!!”
In his view, former African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Sowore maintained that the corps member stated a fact, not an insult, adding that NYSC had lost its purpose.
“Saying that Bola Tinubu is a terrible person/’president’ is not an insult; it is a statement of fact. NYSC has outlived its usefulness, if it was ever helpful at all, considering its deceptive origin and outright corrupt nature,” he wrote on his X.
