{"id":87075,"date":"2021-10-15T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=87075"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:16:07","slug":"femi-adesina-nigerians-more-attracted-to-buhari-than-awolowo-azikiwe-aminu-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/femi-adesina-nigerians-more-attracted-to-buhari-than-awolowo-azikiwe-aminu-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"Femi Adesina: Nigerians more attracted to Buhari than Awolowo, Azikiwe, Aminu Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1713686444252377266\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Muhammadu Buhari pulls more crowd than notable politicians such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Aminu Kano, according to Mr Femi Adesina.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAlthough Awolowo, Azikiwe and Kano are dead, they command huge respect across board till date.<\/p>\n<p>Each of them played huge roles in making Nigeria attain independence and the country\u2019s history is incomplete without them.<\/p>\n<p>But in his weekly article, Adesina, who is Buhari\u2019s spokesman, aligned with the thoughts of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that Buhari is probably Nigeria\u2019s most popular politician.<\/p>\n<p>Osinbajo made this claim while addressing diplomats at the Nigerian High Commission in London last week.<\/p>\n<p>In his article, Adesina wrote, \u201cVice President Yemi Osinbajo is an honest man. Whatever he tells you, please take it serious. You can even take it to the bank, as it\u2019s a cheque that will never bounce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere may be a tendency to say; what else do you expect a number 2 man to say of his principal? He won\u2019t excoriate or flagellate him in public, and because he may possibly need his support for the number one position at a time in the future, so he would say sugary things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a typical politician, ambitious, cold, calculating, scheming, yes. But those of us who work with the duo know that Professor Yemi Osinbajo is not in that mould. He is honest, factual, totally dependent on God for whatever the future holds. Nothing is a matter of life and death, and so he could have chosen to keep quiet about the attributes of the President, so that he wouldn\u2019t be misconstrued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he said Buhari was possibly Nigeria\u2019s most popular politician that we have had in generations, I believe it, not just by the hearing of the ear, but because my eyes have seen it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am old enough to have seen our colorful and even swashbuckling politicians in action. I have seen the great Obafemi Awolowo. The charismatic Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik of Africa). Shehu Shagari. Amino Kano. M.K.O Abiola. Bashir Tofa, and many others in action. But I have not seen anyone with the kind of attraction, magnetic pull, that Muhammadu Buhari has. And that is round the country, north and south. People swarm round him as bees do to honey.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No Nigerian leader, dead or alive, can match Buhari\u2019s public appeal\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been round the country with the President. I have also been to several countries of the world with him. I have not seen any other Nigerian leader, past or present, with his kind of allure, pull, fascination, magnetism. And that is why VP Osinbajo is right to have described him as possibly \u201cthe most popular Nigerian politician that we ever had in this generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adesina buttressed his point of Buhari being admired by many Nigerians with an instance of how a crowd trooped to the streets when the president returned after his longest medical vacation abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember that day in August 2017, when the President returned to the country finally from his medical vacation. From January of that year, he had been in and out a couple of times, but spending weeks and months outside, attending to his health,\u201d he wrote.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari pulls more crowd than notable politicians such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Aminu Kano, according to Mr Femi Adesina. 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