Laolu Akande, a former presidential aide, has strongly condemned the seating arrangement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s inauguration ceremony. In an interview with Channels Television from 4:54, Akande described the placement of Nigeria’s president on the second row as “completely unacceptable”.
Akande emphasized that this should be the last time such a snub occurs, implying that Nigeria’s president deserves better treatment. While he acknowledged that President Ramaphosa may have greeted President Tinubu with a handshake, which was not captured by cameras, he insisted that the seating arrangement was disrespectful.
“This should be the last time that they treated the Nigerian president the way they treated President Tinubu in South Africa,” Akande said. “The very idea of President Tinubu representing Nigeria, taking a second-row seat is completely unacceptable.”
He also stated that Ramaphosa did not ignore President Tinubu “I don’t think that Ramaphosa ignored him, I think he actually gave like a hand greeting across which the camera did not pick”…..Sée Móre
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