Despite all of the hostilities, I stand with Buhari, Femi Adesina insists there must be handshakes across the Niger

By Kemi Kasumu, General Editor

One of the resistant tools that the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration have been bequeathed with, which have made his government and Nigeria remain steady and stable despite the fifth columnists’ seeming overwhelming hostilities, is Mr. Femi Adesina just like others include Mallam Garba Shehu, Mr. Laolu Akande and even Amazon of the Presidential Media Office, Ms Lauretta Onochie, who have consistently, untiringly persistent in holding out firmly against those mischief makers. Conveying his sincere condolences to those grieving and mourning the loss of loved ones as a result of the unfortunate killings, the Presidential Adviser, Mr. Femi Adesina, is further sad that by the hands of such mischievous people, hell suddenly seemed to have enlarged itself against Nigeria.

Mr. Femi Adesina, immediate past Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief, Sun Newspapers Limited, and currently Special Adviser to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has resisted all hypocrisies around to declare his stand with President Muhammadu Buhari.  Doing so, interpretably, is only way to stand with Nigeria in the face of current realities on ground in the country.

Mr. Adesina, known for his capacity to easily decipher hypocrisy from many pretentious sincerity even when they are diluted coming from closest of relations, is sad that Nigerians allow themselves to be used by people of questionable characters, who politicise the destiny of the nation and wellbeing of its people, to drift the country towards a state of anarchy.

The former President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) spoke in an article he titled “Why I stand with Buhari”, released Friday night from the Seat of Power in Abuja, copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER, in which he exposed the brains behind the crises and killings in Rivers, Kaduna, Taraba, and Benue states, among others to be members of the opposition, who instead of finding solutions and joining to chart the way forward, he says, are not only making political capital out of the killings but also, largely too, are trying to use the orgy of bloodshed to advance their political interests, wanting to make it appear that it is a failure of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

For many years, this has been the way of fifth columnists and that was why, until the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari’s civilian administration on May 29, 2015, “yesterday of Nigerian people was always better than their today”, Senator Babafemi Ojudu once said in an interview with The DEFENDER Abuja.

But to the chagrin of the evil perpetrators, there are many people in public places particularly going beyond the traditional media in launching serious attacks neutralizing the misrepresentations they want to spread against Buhari government in their usual way for no other reason, our investigations have further revealed, but that Nigerian common man would never get out of their deliberately created bondage of poverty and lack of qualitative education.

One of the resistant tools that the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration have been bequeathed with, which have made his government and Nigeria remain steady and stable despite the fifth columnists’ seeming overwhelming hostilities, is Mr. Femi Adesina just like others include Mallam Garba Shehu, Mr. Laolu Akande and even Amazon of the Presidential Media Office, Ms Lauretta Onochie, who have consistently, untiringly persistent in holding out firmly against those mischief makers.

Conveying his sincere condolences to those grieving and mourning the loss of loved ones as a result of the unfortunate killings, the Presidential Adviser, Mr. Femi Adesina, is further sad that by the hands of such mischievous people, hell suddenly seemed to have enlarged itself against Nigeria.

It would be recalled that the moment the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) lost power on May 29, 2015 they resolved to engage in what later became dangerous activities that would plant discord and confusion in the land, it was gathered from certain quarters, so that the same Nigerians who said they were tired of them would see the need to regret why the PDP in government were voted out of power, knowing Nigerians particularly in South of the Niger to be people of short memory.

It was further gathered that it was this dangerous plot and desperation to return to power, regardless of implications on the common man in the country, that led to the crises that the nation has witnessed from Niger Delta Avengers’ bombings of oil installations to the politicized Boko Haram insurgency, cultist killings in Rivers, baseless terrorist IPOB in the South East and, lately, the sudden resurgence of herdsmen/farmers’ clashes that the opposition and uninformed Nigerians have suddenly joined in blaming on a fiction that it occurred because Buhari the President is their man in power.

Mr. Adesina noted: “Faults are thick where love is thin. There is prejudice in Nigeria. Plenty. There is insularity, in prodigious quantity. There is animus, antipathy against anyone that is not of your ethnic or religious stock, or that belongs to a different political orientation or persuasion. If you meet him, kill him, if you can’t catch him, poison his footsteps, seems to be the singsong among some people. And as the build up to general elections next year gathers momentum, matters are made worse. Everything must be politicized, including wanton killings. There must be spurious handshakes across the Niger, and across the Benue, all for political gains.”

Despite of all of that, he insisted, “But I stand with Buhari, and will always do. Why won’t you? Your snout is in the honeypot, licking the nectars of office, some cynics would say. Really? My bank balances do not indicate so. It is not just about money. It is about conviction. It is about believing in a man who can bring enduring change to our country, if we allow God to have His way through him.”

*Details of article later.