“His claim at the ADC event that Nigeria under Bola Tinubu is worse than military rule was not a gaffe but a willful distortion of history and further slide into senile dementia. “It insults the memory of Nigerians jailed, exiled, or killed under decrees and firing squads so that men like Atiku could enjoy today’s freedoms. “We have a unique opportunity within the ADC as a political party. It is a convergence of various political leanings across the country, united in an effort to reunite Nigeria and renew our democratic journey. “Not even the military dictatorships before 1999 damaged our national life and consciousness in the way this administration has done,” he said.