Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari’s special adviser on media and publicity, has stated that his boss cannot lie to Nigerians.
Despite the fact that many administrations lie to their citizens, according to Adesina, the Buhari administration is different.
On Thursday evening, he made the contribution in an opinion piece headlined “weighty matters about our country,” which he published on his Facebook page.
While reacting to the diverse reactions to President Buhari’s independence day message to Nigerians on October 1, the presidential communications aide expressed his opinion.
He wrote in part: “My motive in this piece is to consider parts of the broadcast that look into our very essence, our raison-d-etre as a country, and how the ties that bind can be further strengthened. Okay, let’s go.
“Fellow Nigerians, the past 18 months have been some of the most difficult periods in the history of Nigeria. Since the civil war, I doubt whether we have seen a period of more heightened challenges than what we have witnessed in this period.”
“Factual. Straight as an arrow. Deadpan. Our President is not one to mince words, speak facetiously or tongue-in-cheek. He says it as it is.
“We have, indeed, passed through the most challenging of times in the past 18 months: security-wise, economically, socio-politically, and in many other ways. Life has descended into the Hobbesian state of nature; nasty, brutish and short. But God will have mercy on whom He will have mercy. We are still here, standing, hoping, trusting. Better days will come, and are, indeed, coming. Challenges are meant to be surmounted. Accepting that they are real is the first practical step to combating them.
“The Buhari administration is not glossing over our issues, but is rather facing them squarely. And that is why #We Believe. Some governments lie to their people. No, not the Buhari government.”
