Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, says the president does not have to visit victims of Boko Haram onslaught or herdsmen massacre.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Buhari\u2019s failure to visit Agatu communities after the herdsmen massacre, Adesina said the president already reacted to the massacre in a statement. He added that Buhari is not a talkative.<\/p>\n
\u201cA section of this country wants a talkative president and it doesn\u2019t work that way. When the Agatu thing happened, we issued a statement \u2013 a statement in which President Buhari said he would ask for briefings, and it would be lookedinto,\u201d Adesina said in an interview with Osasu Igbinedion on The Osasu Show.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people kept saying Agatu, Agatu, he has not spoken, and I asked myself, what else would he say after the statement that has been issued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are used to the style of the last administration in which whenever anything happens, the president would go there. But do you know that before that last president left, that style had begun to backfire.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had begun to say, every day he would go there, he would go here, what comes out of it?\u201d<\/p>\n
When told that the president is disconnected from the people who may be in need of empathy, Adesina said: \u201cIt\u2019s not true. It\u2019s a perception, and those who have the percept I on, there\u2019s nothing you\u2019d do that will satisfy them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen anything happens and the presidency has spoken on it, anybody who wants to remain deaf to it, there\u2019s then nothing that can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking on visits to Boko Haram victims as done under former president, Goodluck Jonathan, Adesina said it does not have to be that way.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be that way. There are many ways to kill a snake. Going there to visit is not the only way.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn nine months, see the difference that has been made in the insurgency war. How many times did you see the president at the theatre of war\u2026but see the difference that has been made. Results are what matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adesina also likened \u201cwailing wailers\u201d to kids whose lollipop had been taken, calling on them to stop wailing and support the president in attaining enduring change.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wailing wailers, you\u2019d see that I used that expression not quite a month or two into the life of the administration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, how will a new administration\u2026and maybe whenever the president says something, you just start hearing noise, wah, wah, wah, wah, like a child whose lollipop has been taken away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t want to give an opportunity for the government, and that was why I said why are they wailing like wailers.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr president has no other things he does than to serve Nigeria. Whatcan the people do? The people can support him; the wailing wailers should stop wailing and rather begin to encourage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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