The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and
Publicity, Femi Adesina, has vowed not to respond to those he tagged as
“wailing wailers” in their private capacities.
Adesina said he was too busy to reply those wailers who were hell
bent on “spoiling the current administration with their tongues.”
He made this comment when asked to react to a statement credited to
former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, in which she
described his (Adesina’s) recent statement as a “terribly indecorous
press release.”
“I don’t respond to wailing wailers in their private capacities,” Adesina simply said when reached by Punch.
Adesina had issued a statement on Friday saying the reported
discussion between President Muhammadu Buhari and the World Bank Group
President, Jim Yong Kim, was deliberately twisted by those who he said
specialised in such acts.
He had said, ignorant and mischievous people were making it seem
that Buhari’s position was a calculated attempt to give the North an
unfair advantage over other parts of Nigeria.
But Ezekwesili said Adesina worsened the debate with his statement.
The former minister urged Buhari to rein in members of his media team and re-train them for effectiveness.