Posted on: 01:48 Sat, 02 Apr 2016



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.

Speaking on Buhari’s 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.

“A section of this country wants a
talkative president and it doesn’t
work that way. When the Agatu
thing happened, we issued a
statement – a statement in which
President Buhari said he would ask
for briefings, and it would be
lookedinto,” Adesina said in an
interview with Osasu Igbinedion on
The Osasu Show.

“Some 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.

“We 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.

“They had begun to say, every day
he would go there, he would go
here, what comes out of it?”

When told that the president is
disconnected from the people who
may be in need of empathy,
Adesina said: “It’s not true. It’s a
perception, and those who have the
percept I on, there’s nothing you’d
do that will satisfy them.

“When anything happens and the
presidency has spoken on it,
anybody who wants to remain deaf
to it, there’s then nothing that can
be done.”

Speaking on visits to Boko Haram
victims as done under former
president, Goodluck Jonathan,
Adesina said it does not have to be
that way.

“It doesn’t have to be that way.
There are many ways to kill a
snake. Going there to visit is not
the only way.

“In 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…but see the
difference that has been made.
Results are what matter.”

WAILING WAILERS SHOULD STOP
WAILING

Adesina also likened “wailing
wailers” to kids whose lollipop had
been taken, calling on them to stop
wailing and support the president
in attaining enduring change.

“The wailing wailers, you’d see that
I used that expression not quite a
month or two into the life of the
administration,” he said.

“Now, how will a new
administration…and maybe
whenever the president says
something, you just start hearing
noise, wah, wah, wah, wah, like a
child whose lollipop has been taken
away.

“They didn’t want to give an
opportunity for the government,
and that was why I said why are
they wailing like wailers.

“Mr 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.”