By BASHIR ADEFAKA
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has described as evil, peddlers of fake news against him regarding the #ENDSARS protests.
He said in a statement on Sunday that an online newspaper (not The DEFENDER) “published by a so-called journalist notorious for fake stories has published that President Muhammadu Buhari was to have scrapped the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) on Friday, but was prevailed upon by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, not to do so.”
The tendentious publication, the statement said, claimed Adesina hinged his argument on the fact that “the administration should not surrender to Twitter warriors.”
Reacting he said, “While the FSARS saga lasted, I did not say a word on it, whether publicly or privately. Why? It was not within my brief. It rested squarely with the Nigeria Police Force, which has its own spokesman.
“For the online publication to have cooked outright falsehood against me shows the riot that is going on in that space, in the name of journalism.
“The brain behind the blog had always twisted stories against me and his former employers would testify that I had officially reported him about twice, till I then declined to grant him interviews again.
“The publication should please be treated as what it is: lie from the pit of hell. A concoction, falsehood from a diseased mind, bent on causing disaffection against other people.
The DEFENDER reports that all attempts to make a Reuben Abati in Femi Adesina by labelling the revered journalism leader with bad attributes for being Spokesman of President of his country has continued to fail, it was gathered.
Our findings revealed that most Nigerians particularly in the media tend to hold their colleague in the high office of Presidential Media Adviser to their write ups before appointment to say he has backslided.
But during a visit to the State House last week Monday, Adesina told The DEFENDER that “they are trying their best to do same against me but they cannot succeed.”
